Lamentations 2:21
ContextNETBible | ש (Sin/Shin) The young boys and old men lie dead on the ground in the streets. My young women 1 and my young men have fallen by the sword. You killed them when you were angry; 2 you slaughtered them without mercy. 3 |
XREF | De 28:50; Jos 6:21; 1Sa 15:3; 2Ch 36:17; Es 3:13; Ps 78:63; Isa 27:11; Jer 9:21; Jer 11:22; Jer 13:14; Jer 18:21; Jer 21:7; Jer 51:22; La 1:15,18; La 2:2,17; La 3:43; Eze 5:11; Eze 7:4,9; Eze 8:18; Eze 9:5,10; Eze 9:6; Am 4:10; Zec 11:6 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “virgins.” The term “virgin” probably functions as a metonymy of association for single young women. 2 tn Heb “in the day of your anger.” The construction בָּיוֹם (bayom, “in the day of…”) is a common Hebrew idiom, meaning “when…” (e.g., Gen 2:4; Lev 7:35; Num 3:1; Deut 4:15; 2 Sam 22:1; Pss 18:1; 138:3; Zech 8:9). This temporal idiom refers to a general time period, but uses the term “day” as a forceful rhetorical device to emphasize the vividness and drama of the event, depicting it as occurring within a single day. In the ancient Near East, military minded kings often referred to a successful campaign as “the day of X” in order to portray themselves as powerful conquerors who, as it were, could inaugurate and complete a victory military campaign within the span of one day. 3 tc The MT reads לֹא חָמָלְתָּ (lo’ khamalta, “You showed no mercy”). However, many medieval Hebrew |