19. “Arise, cry out in the night,At the beginning of the watches;Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.Lift your hands toward HimFor the life of your young children,Who faint from hunger at the head of every street.”
20. “See, O Lord, and consider!To whom have You done this?Should the women eat their offspring,The children they have cuddled?Should the priest and prophet be slainIn the sanctuary of the Lord?
21. “Young and old lieOn the ground in the streets;My virgins and my young menHave fallen by the sword;You have slain them in the day of Your anger,You have slaughtered and not pitied.
22. “You have invited as to a feast dayThe terrors that surround me.In the day of the Lord’s angerThere was no refugee or survivor.Those whom I have borne and brought upMy enemies have destroyed.”