³⁰ Even youths will faint and be weary,
    and the young will fall exhausted,

¹⁴ Flight shall perish from the swift,
    and the strong shall not retain their strength,
    nor shall the mighty save their lives;^(A)

¹⁶ A king is not saved by his great army;
    a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.^(A)

¹⁰ The young lions suffer want and hunger,
    but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.^(A)

¹⁸ Their bows will slaughter the young men;
    they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;
    their eyes will not pity children.^(A)

¹⁷ That is why the Lord did not have pity on^[a] their young people
    or compassion on their orphans and widows,
for everyone was godless and an evildoer,
    and every mouth spoke folly.
For all this his anger has not turned away;
    his hand is stretched out still.^(A)

¹¹ But I am full of the wrath of the Lord;
    I am weary of holding it in.

⁵ You have made my days a few handbreadths,
    and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight.
Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah^(A)

²¹ “Death has come up into our windows;
    it has entered our palaces
to cut off the children from the streets
    and the young men from the squares.”^(A)