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Lamentations 2:22

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 22 As if for a festival day,+ you summon terrors from every direction.
  
  In the day of the wrath of Jehovah, no one escaped or survived;+
  Those whom I gave birth to* and reared, my enemy exterminated.+

Lamentations 2:22

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 22 As in the day of a festival+ you proceeded to call out my places of alien residence all around.
  And in the day of the wrath of Jehovah there proved to be no escapee or survivor;+
  Those whom I brought forth fully formed and reared, my enemy himself exterminated them.+

Lamentations 2:22

The Bible in Living English
- 22 You are calling my terrors on every side as if for the day of an annual feast,
  and there were none on the day of Jehovah’s anger that escaped or survived.
  Those that I had petted and brought up my enemy has swept away.

Lamentations 2:22

American Standard Version
- 22 Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; And there was none that escaped or remained in the day of Jehovah’s anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

Lamentations 2:22

The Emphasized Bible
- 22 Wilt thou proclaim like the day of an appointed meeting—My terrors round about? When there was not—in the day of the anger of Yahweh—fugitive or survivor,—Those whom I dandled and reared my foe hath destroyed.

Lamentations 2:22

King James Version
- 22 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.