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Selected Verse: Lamentations 2:12 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| La 2:12 |
Strong Concordance |
They say [0559] to their mothers [0517], Where is corn [01715] and wine [03196]? when they swooned [05848] as the wounded [02491] in the streets [07339] of the city [05892], when their soul [05315] was poured out [08210] into their mothers [0517]' bosom [02436]. |
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King James |
They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
as the wounded--famine being as deadly as the sword (Jer 52:6).
soul . . . poured . . . into . . . mothers bosom--Instinctively turning to their mother's bosom, but finding no milk there, they breathe out their life as it were "into her bosom." |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| They say - Or, "They keep saying:" it was an oft-repeated cry, even while expiring upon their mother's bosom. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Bosom - When they died in their mother's arms. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| When their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom - When, in endeavoring to draw nourishment from the breasts of their exhausted mothers, they breathed their last in their bosoms! How dreadfully afflicting was this! |
6 And in the fourth [07243] month [02320], in the ninth [08672] day of the month [02320], the famine [07458] was sore [02388] in the city [05892], so that there was no bread [03899] for the people [05971] of the land [0776].