²⁰ Look, O Lord, and consider!
    To whom have you done this?
Should women eat their offspring,
    the children they have borne?
Should priest and prophet be killed
    in the sanctuary of the Lord?^(A)

⁴ Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory
    and lounge on their couches
and eat lambs from the flock
    and calves from the stall,^(B)
5 who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp
    and like David improvise on instruments of music,^(C)
6 who drink wine from bowls
    and anoint themselves with the finest oils
    but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!^(D)

⁹ Happier were those pierced by the sword
    than those pierced by hunger,
whose life drains away, deprived
    of the produce of the field.^(A)

¹⁰ The hands of compassionate women
    have boiled their own children;
they became their food
    in the destruction of my people.^(B)