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)

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

⁹ Those killed by the sword are better off
    than those who die of famine;^(A)
racked with hunger, they waste away
    for lack of food from the field.^(B)

¹⁰ With their own hands compassionate women
    have cooked their own children,^(A)
who became their food
    when my people were destroyed.