Lamentaciones 2:21
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.
Context
This verse from Lamentaciones Chapter 2 connects to 10 cross-references. Dios es descrito como adversario que devoró a Israel sin misericordia, destruyó los palacios y derribó los muros de Jerusalén. El poeta ruega que Dios considere su angustia.
Otras traducciones
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.
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.
The young men and the old are stretched on the earth in the streets; my virgins and my young men have been put to the sword: you have sent death on them in the day of your wrath, causing death without pity.
Referencias cruzadas
A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and …
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man …
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the …
And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to …
He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for …
Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it …
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from …