20 Look, O Lord, and see!
    (A)With whom have you dealt thus?
(B)Should women eat the fruit of their womb,
    the children of (C)their tender care?
Should (D)priest and prophet be killed
    in the sanctuary of the Lord?

21 In the dust of the streets
    (E)lie the young and the old;
(F)my young women and my young men
    have fallen by the sword;
(G)you have killed them in the day of your anger,
    slaughtering (H)without pity.

22 You summoned as if to (I)a festival day
    (J)my terrors on every side,
(K)and on the day of the anger of the Lord
    no one escaped or survived;
(L)those whom I held and raised
    my enemy destroyed.

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20 “Look, Lord, and consider:
    Whom have you ever treated like this?
Should women eat their offspring,(A)
    the children they have cared for?(B)
Should priest and prophet be killed(C)
    in the sanctuary of the Lord?(D)

21 “Young and old lie together
    in the dust of the streets;
my young men and young women
    have fallen by the sword.(E)
You have slain them in the day of your anger;
    you have slaughtered them without pity.(F)

22 “As you summon to a feast day,
    so you summoned against me terrors(G) on every side.
In the day of the Lord’s anger
    no one escaped(H) or survived;
those I cared for and reared(I)
    my enemy has destroyed.”

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