Charles Ellicott Commentary Lamentations 2:21

"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 (ASV)

The young and the old ... —The thoughts of the mourner turn from the massacre in the sanctuary to the slaughter which did its dread work in every corner of the city.