Lamentations 2:21 References

21 On the ground in the streets Lie ayoung and old; My bvirgins and my young men Have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger, You have slaughtered, cnot sparing.

a 2 Chronicles 36:17, Jeremiah 6:11

2 Chronicles 36

17 aTherefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand.

Jeremiah 6

11 But I am afull of the wrath of the Lord; I am bweary with holding it in. "cPour it out on the children in the street And on the gathering of young men together; For both husband and wife shall be taken, The aged and the very old.

Other references for Lamentations 2:21

b Psalms 78:62, Psalms 78:63

c Jeremiah 13:14, Zechariah 11:6