Lamentations 2:20
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Young's Literal Translation
See, O Jehovah, and look attentively, To whom Thou hast acted thus, Do women eat their fruit, infants of a handbreadth? Slain in the sanctuary of the Lord are priest and prophet?

King James Bible
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Hebrew
Look,
רְאֵ֤ה (rə·’êh)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

O LORD,
יְהוָה֙ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

and consider:
וְֽהַבִּ֔יטָה (wə·hab·bî·ṭāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5027: To scan, look intently at, to regard

Whom
לְמִ֖י (lə·mî)
Preposition-l | Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

have You [ever] treated
עוֹלַ֣לְתָּ (‘ō·w·lal·tā)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5953: To effect thoroughly, to glean, to overdo, maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose

like this?
כֹּ֑ה (kōh)
Adverb
Strong's 3541: Like this, thus, here, now

Should women
נָשִׁ֤ים (nā·šîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

eat
תֹּאכַ֨לְנָה (tō·ḵal·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

their offspring,
פִּרְיָם֙ (pir·yām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6529: Fruit

the infants
עֹלֲלֵ֣י (‘ō·lă·lê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 5768: A suckling

they have nurtured?
טִפֻּחִ֔ים (ṭip·pu·ḥîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2949: Tenderly cared for

Should priests
כֹּהֵ֥ן (kō·hên)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3548: Priest

and prophets
וְנָבִֽיא׃ (wə·nā·ḇî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5030: A spokesman, speaker, prophet

be killed
יֵהָרֵ֛ג (yê·hā·rêḡ)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2026: To smite with deadly intent

in the sanctuary
בְּמִקְדַּ֥שׁ (bə·miq·daš)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4720: A consecrated thing, place, a palace, sanctuary, asylum

of the Lord?
אֲדֹנָ֖י (’ă·ḏō·nāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 136: The Lord

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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