Lamentations 2:18-20

Good News Translation

¹⁸ O Jerusalem, let your very walls cry out to the Lord!^[a]
    Let your tears flow like rivers night and day;
    Wear yourself out with weeping and grief

¹⁹ All through the night get up again and again to cry out to the Lord;
    Pour out your heart and beg him for mercy on your children—
    Children starving to death on every street corner!

²⁰ Look, O Lord! Why are you punishing us like this?
    Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved!
    Priests and prophets are being killed in the Temple itself