Lamentations 2:19-21

International Children’s Bible

¹⁹ Get up, cry out in the night.
    Cry all through the night.
Pour out your heart like water
    in prayer to the Lord.
Lift up your hands in prayer to him.
    Pray for the life of your children.
They are fainting with hunger
    on every street corner.

²⁰ Jerusalem says: “Look, Lord, and see.
    You have never done this to anyone else.
Women eat their own babies,
    the children they have cared for.
Priests and prophets
    are killed in the Temple of the Lord.

²¹ “Young men and old men
    lie on the ground in the streets of the city.
My young women and young men
    have been killed by the sword.
You, Lord, killed them on the day of your anger.
    You killed them without mercy.