“You have called, as on the appointed day, my fears from all around, and there was no refugee or remnant on the day of the Lord’s wrath. Those whom I nurtured and reared, my enemy annihilated” (Lamentations 2:22).“You have called, as on the appointed day, my fears [megurai] from all around.” What is megurai? It is from within my house.130This is expounded from the word gur, meaning reside. The gentile servants within my own house have turned against me. Rabbi Elazar son of Rabbi Marinos said: People who prepared my pots of dessert came against me.“There was no refugee or remnant on the day of the Lord’s wrath.” Rabbi Ḥiya taught: Corresponding to the sons and daughters that you will have, the sin will eliminate them. “Whom I nurtured and reared” is not written here, but rather, “whom I nurtured and reared, my enemy annihilated.”131The meaning of this statement and proof text is difficult, and commentaries have offered different explanations. Some suggest that the meaning is that sin caused the death of children corresponding to the total number; if one person had two children, for example, one died; if another person had four children, two of them would die. The proof from the verse is that “reared [ribiti]” is written with a yod, such that it can be read as “numerous [ribui].” The more children one had, the more would die (Yefe Anaf).End of the Second Alphabetical Acrostic