Lamentations 2:20-22

New Catholic Bible

²⁰ Look, O Lord, and consider:
    whom have you ever treated in this fashion?
Should women eat their little ones,
    the children to whom they gave birth?
Should priest and prophet be killed
    in the sanctuary of the Lord?
²¹ The young and the old are lying dead
    on the ground in the streets.
My young women and my young men
    have fallen by the sword.
On the day of your anger you have slain them,
    slaughtering them without pity.
²² As if it were for a day of festival,
    you summoned my enemies from every side.
On the day of the Lord’s anger
    no one escaped and no one survived.
All those whom I bore and reared
    my enemy has completely annihilated.