Lamentations 2:21 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.”
Lamentations 2:21 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 2:21 in 6 Bible Translations
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Lamentations 2:21 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
““The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger. You have slaughtered, and not pitied.”
Lamentations 2:21 — World English Bible
Lamentations 2:21 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast slaughtered, and not pitied. ”
Lamentations 2:21 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 2:21 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“Lain on the earth <FI>in<Fi> out-places have young and old, My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword, Thou hast slain in a day of Thine anger, Thou hast slaughtered--Thou hast not pitied.”
Lamentations 2:21 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 2:21 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“The child and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain [them] in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, thou hast not spared. ”
Lamentations 2:21 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 2:21 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“The yong and the olde lie on the ground in the streetes: my virgins and my yong men are fallen by the sworde: thou hast slaine them in the day of thy wrath: thou hast killed and not spared.”
Lamentations 2:21 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 2:21 in Context — Lamentations 2
19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
20 Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lord’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
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What Does Lamentations 2:21 Mean?
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