Jeremiæ 2:12

Nova Vulgata

LAMED. Matribus suis dixerunt: "Ubi est triticum et vinum?", cum deficerent quasi vulnerati in plateis civitatis, cum exhalarent animas suas in sinu matrum suarum.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Obstupescite, c�li, super hoc : et port� ejus, desolamini vehementer, dicit Dominus.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Matribus suis dixerunt:
Ubi est triticum et vinum?
cum deficerent quasi vulnerati
in plateis civitatis,
cum exhalarent animas suas
in sinu matrum suarum.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as the: Ezekiel 30:24

soul: Isaiah 53:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:18 - her soul Deuteronomy 28:18 - the fruit of thy body Isaiah 51:20 - sons Jeremiah 37:21 - until Lamentations 1:11 - seek Lamentations 2:19 - that faint Lamentations 4:4 - the young Luke 10:30 - wounded John 1:18 - in the

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They say to their mothers, where [is] corn and wine?.... Not the sucklings who could not speak, nor were used to corn and wine, but the children more grown; both are before spoken of, but these are meant, even the young men of Israel, as the Targum; and such as had been brought up in the best manner, had been used to wine, and not water, and therefore ask for that as well as corn; both take in all the necessaries of life; and which they ask of their mothers, who had been used to feed them, and were most tender of them; but now not seeing and having their usual provisions, and not knowing what was the reason of it, inquire after them, being pressed with hunger:

when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city; having no food given them, though they asked for it time after time, they fainted away, and died a lingering death; as wounded persons do who are not killed at once, which is the more distressing:

when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom; meaning not the desires of their souls for food, expressed in moving and melting language as they sat in their mothers' laps, and lay in their bosoms; which must be piercing unto them, if no more was designed; but their souls or lives themselves, which they gave up through famine, as the Targum; expiring in their mothers' arms.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They say - Or, “They keep saying:” it was an oft-repeated cry, even while expiring upon their mother’s bosom.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 12. When their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom. — When, in endeavouring to draw nourishment from the breasts of their exhausted mothers, they breathed their last in their bosoms! How dreadfully afflicting was this!