20 “Look, Lord, and consider:
    Whom have you ever treated like this?
Should women eat their offspring,(A)
    the children they have cared for?(B)
Should priest and prophet be killed(C)
    in the sanctuary of the Lord?(D)

21 “Young and old lie together
    in the dust of the streets;
my young men and young women
    have fallen by the sword.(E)
You have slain them in the day of your anger;
    you have slaughtered them without pity.(F)

22 “As you summon to a feast day,
    so you summoned against me terrors(G) on every side.
In the day of the Lord’s anger
    no one escaped(H) or survived;
those I cared for and reared(I)
    my enemy has destroyed.”

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20 Look, Lord, and take note:
    To whom have you done this?
Should women eat their offspring,
    the children they have cuddled?
Should priests and prophets be slain
    in the sanctuary of the Lord?

21 Young men and the aged
    lie on the ground in the streets;
my young women and young men
    have fallen by the sword.
You killed them in your anger,
    slaughtering them without pity.

22 You have invited those who terrorize me to come around,
    as if today were a festival.
No one has escaped or survived
    the time of the Lord’s anger.
My enemy has finished off
    those whom I cuddled and raised.

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