Lamentations 2:19-21

New International Reader's Version

¹⁹ Get up. Cry out as the night begins.
    Tell the Lord all your troubles.
Lift up your hands to him.
    Pray that the lives of your children will be spared.
At every street corner they faint
    because they are so hungry.

²⁰ Jerusalem says, “Lord, look at me.
    Think about my condition.
    Have you ever treated anyone else like this?
Should women have to eat their babies?
    Should they eat the children they’ve taken care of?
Should priests and prophets be killed
    in your own temple?

²¹ “Young people and old people alike
    lie dead in the dust of my streets.
My young men and women
    have been killed by swords.
You killed them when you were angry.
    You put them to death without pity.