19 Get up, cry out in the night.Cry all through the night.Pour out your heart like waterin prayer to the Lord.Lift up your hands in prayer to him.Pray for the life of your children.They are fainting with hungeron every street corner.
20 Jerusalem says: “Look, Lord, and see.You have never done this to anyone else.Women eat their own babies,the children they have cared for.Priests and prophetsare killed in the Temple of the Lord.
21 “Young men and old menlie on the ground in the streets of the city.My young women and young menhave been killed by the sword.You, Lord, killed them on the day of your anger.You killed them without mercy.
22 “You invited terrors to come against me on every side.It was as if you were inviting them to a feast.No one escaped or remained aliveon the day of the Lord’s anger.My enemy has killedthose whom I gave birth to and brought up.”