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They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers` bosom.
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The Ultimate Tragedy
Commentators highlight the profound horror of this scene. Children are dying in their mothers' arms, the very place they should find life and comfort. Their desperate cries for food to the one person who wants to help but cannot, as Calvin notes, creates a picture of absolute societal breakdown and unimaginable sorrow.
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Lamentations
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18th Century
Presbyterian
They say - Or, “They keep saying:” it was an often-repeated cry, even while expiring upon their mother’s bosom.
19th Century
Anglican
They say ... —The words seem to paint what was actually passing before the writer’s eye, but may be the vivid present which repres…
16th Century
Protestant
There is either a personification in the words of the Prophet, or he is speaking of a different group. He cannot be referring to children nursing a…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
They say to their mothers, where [is] corn and wine ? &c.] Not the sucklings who could not speak, nor were used to c…
Causes for lamentation are described. Multitudes perished by famine. Even little children were slain by their mother's hands and eaten, according t…
13th Century
Catholic
Here he exposes the course of their death in order to arouse greater mercy.
The petition they make to their mothers: where is …
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