Lamentations 2:11-12

Lamentations 2:11-12

[11] Mine eyes  do fail  with tears,  my bowels  are troubled,  my liver  is poured  upon the earth,  for the destruction  of the daughter  of my people;  because the children  and the sucklings  swoon  in the streets  of the city.  [12] They say  to their mothers,  Where is corn  and wine?  when they swooned  as the wounded  in the streets  of the city,  when their soul  was poured out  into their mothers'  bosom. 

What does Lamentations 2:11-12 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

Jeremiah had exhausted his capacity for weeping and sorrowing over the destruction of his people; he felt drained emotionally. He observed small children and infants fainting in the streets for lack of food and drink. They were dying in their mothers" arms for lack of nourishment. Jerusalem was a place of starvation.