Lamentations 2:18-22

English Standard Version

¹⁸ Their heart cried to the Lord.
    O ^(A)wall of the daughter of Zion,
^(B)let tears stream down like a torrent
    ^(C)day and night!
^(D)Give yourself no rest,
    ^(E)your eyes no respite!

¹⁹ “Arise, ^(F)cry out in the night,
    at the beginning of the night watches!
^(G)Pour out your heart like water
    before the presence of the Lord!
^(H)Lift your hands to him
    for the lives of your children,
^(I)who faint for hunger
    at the head of every street.”

²⁰ Look, O Lord, and see!
    ^(J)With whom have you dealt thus?
^(K)Should women eat the fruit of their womb,
    the children of ^(L)their tender care?
Should ^(M)priest and prophet be killed
    in the sanctuary of the Lord?

²¹ In the dust of the streets
    ^(N)lie the young and the old;
^(O)my young women and my young men
    have fallen by the sword;
^(P)you have killed them in the day of your anger,
    slaughtering ^(Q)without pity.

²² You summoned as if to ^(R)a festival day
    ^(S)my terrors on every side,
^(T)and on the day of the anger of the Lord
    no one escaped or survived;
^(U)those whom I held and raised
    my enemy destroyed.