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20 “Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus!
    Should the women eat their offspring,
    the children that they held and bounced on their knees?
    Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

21 “The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets.
    My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword.
You have killed them in the day of your anger.
    You have slaughtered, and not pitied.

22 “You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side.
    There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
    My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.

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