Lamentations 1:18-20

Good News Translation

¹⁸ “But the Lord is just, for I have disobeyed him.
    Listen to me, people everywhere; look at me in my pain.
    My young men and women have been taken away captive.

¹⁹ “I called to my allies, but they refused to help me.
    The priests and the leaders died in the city streets,
    Looking for food to keep themselves alive.

²⁰ “Look, O Lord, at my agony, at the anguish of my soul!
    My heart is broken in sorrow for my sins.
    There is murder in the streets; even indoors there is death.