LAMENTATIONS "O LORD, think about this!
The faithful love of the LORD never ends!
His mercies never cease.
Great is his faithfulness;
his mercies begin afresh each morning.
Lamentations 3:22-23
I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely
with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow
with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13
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Should you treat your own people this way?
Should mothers eat their own children,
those they once bounced on their knees?
Should priests and prophets be killed
within the Lord's Temple?
See them lying in the streets--
young and old,
boys and girls,
killed by the swords of the enemy.
You have killed them in your anger,
slaughtering them without mercy.
You have invited terrors from all around,
as though you were calling them to a day of feasting.
In the day of the LORD's anger,
no one has escaped or survived.
The enemy has killed all the children
whom I carried and raised."
"See them lying in the streets--young and old, boys and girls, killed by the swords of the enemy. You have killed them in your anger, slaughtering them without mercy."
Deuteronomy 32:25
" 'Outside, the sword will bring death,
and inside, terror will strike
both young men and young women,
both infants and the aged.' " (see Deuteronomy 32:19-27)
2 Chronicles 36:17
So the LORD brought the king of Babylon against them. The Babylonians killed Judah's young men, even chasing after them into the Temple. They had no pity on the people, killing both young men and young women, the old and the infirm. God handed all of them over to Nebuchadnezzar.
(see 2 Chronicles 36:11-21)
Psalm 78:62-63
He gave his people over to be butchered by the sword,
because he was so angry with his own people--his special possession.
Their young men were killed by fire;
their young women died before singing their wedding songs.
(see Psalm 78:56-64)
Jeremiah 6:10-11
To whom can I give warning?
Who will listen when I speak?
Their ears are closed,
and they cannot hear.
They scorn the word of the LORD.
They don't want to listen at all.
So now I am filled with the LORD's fury.
Yes, I am tired of holding it in!
"I will pour out my fury on children playing in the streets
and on gatherings of young men,
on husbands and wives
and on those who are old and gray." (see Jeremiah 6:1-15)
Jeremiah 13:13-14
"Then tell them, 'No, this is what the LORD means: I will fill everyone in this land with drunkenness--from the king sitting on David's throne to the priests and the prophets, right down to the common people of Jerusalem. I will smash them against each other, even parents against children, says the LORD. I will not let my pity or mercy or compassion keep me from destroying them.' " (see Jeremiah 13:8-14)
Lamentations 3:43
"You have engulfed us with your anger, chased us down,
and slaughtered us without mercy." (see Lamentations 3:43-45)
Zechariah 11:6
"Likewise, I will no longer have pity on the people of the land," says the LORD. "I will let them fall into each other's hands and into the hands of their king. They will turn the land into a wilderness, and I will not rescue them."
(see all Zechariah 11)
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