Lamentations 2:22

Lamentations · Old Testament · Chapter 2

“Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.”Lamentations 2:22

What Does Lamentations 2:22 Mean?

Lamentations 2:22 is found in the book of Lamentations, chapter 2, verse 22 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 13 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.

Cross-References (13)

These passages are connected to Lamentations 2:22 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.

Psalms 31:13“For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.”Jeremiah 6:25“Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.”Jeremiah 20:3“And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.”Isaiah 24:17“Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.”Jeremiah 16:2“Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.”Romans 4:15“Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.”Deuteronomy 28:18“Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.”Jeremiah 10:25“Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.”Jeremiah 46:5“Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.”Ezekiel 16:4“And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.”Hosea 9:12“Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!”Amos 9:1“I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.”Luke 23:29“For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.”

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