Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 2:20

20 ¶ 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 ?

That is, not to Heathen who never owned thee, nor were called by thy name, but to thine own people called thy portion and thine heritage, let thy former relation to us, and our former acknowledgements of thee, prevail with thee.

Wilt thou suffer, or should such a thing be, as for women to satisfie their hunger with the fruit of their own Bodies, and that when they are very young.

And shall thy Ministers be slain and that in thy Sanctuary? any humane Blood poluted it, shall not the blood of those that were the Ministers of God be judged a polution, and profanation of it?

Marginal references: Lev. 26.29. Deut. 28.53. Jer. 19.9. chap. 4.10. Ezek. 5.10.; Or, swadled with their hands