³ We have become orphans, fatherless;
    our mothers are like widows.

²¹ Therefore ^(A)deliver up their children to famine;
    give them over to the power of the sword;
let their wives become childless ^(B)and widowed.
    May their men meet death by pestilence,
    their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.

^3 (A)Assyria shall not save us;
    ^(B)we will not ride on horses;
and ^(C)we will say no more, ‘Our God,’
    to the work of our hands.
^(D)In you the orphan finds mercy.”

⁸ I have made their widows more in number
    than ^(A)the sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of young men
    a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
    fall upon them suddenly.