Charles Ellicott Commentary Lamentations 2:20

"See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?" — Lamentations 2:20 (ASV)

To whom you have done this — i.e., not to a heathen nation, but to the people whom Jehovah Himself had chosen.

Shall the women eat their fruit. — Atrocities of this nature had been predicted in Leviticus 26:26; Deuteronomy 28:57; Jeremiah 19:9. They were, indeed, the natural incidents of a besieged city reduced to starvation, as in the case of Samaria (2 Kings 6:28), and the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans (Josephus, B. J. 5.12), and had been witnessed, as the words show, in that by the Chaldeans. (Compare, as to the famine, Ezekiel 4:16–17; Ezekiel 5:16.)

Shall the priest ... — Stress is laid on this as being the next element of horror. The very Holy of Holies was profaned with the blood of the priests and prophets of Jehovah.