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Lamentations 2:12

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 12 They keep asking their mothers, “Where are grain and wine?”+
  
  As they faint away like someone wounded in the public squares of the city,
  As their life* ebbs away in their mothers’ arms.

Lamentations 2:12

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 12 They keep asking their mothers, “Where are grain and wine?”+
  
  As they faint away like someone wounded in the public squares of the city,
  As their life* ebbs away in their mothers’ arms.

Lamentations 2:12

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 12 To their mothers they kept saying: “Where are grain and wine?”+
  Because of their fainting away like someone slain in the public squares of the city,
  Because of their soul being poured out into the bosom of their mothers.

Lamentations 2:12

The Bible in Living English
- 12 * They say to their mothers “Where is some grain and wine?”
  while they faint away in city squares like a man mortally wounded,
  while their life runs out in their mothers’ laps.

Lamentations 2:12

American Standard Version
- 12 They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

Lamentations 2:12

The Emphasized Bible
- 12 To their mothers they keep saying, Where are corn and wine? Swooning off like one thrust through In the broadways of the city, Pouring out their life Into the bosom of their mothers.