Lamentations 1:18-20

Common English Bible

¹⁸ The Lord is right, because I disobeyed his word.
Listen, all you people; look at my suffering.
My young women and young men have gone away as prisoners.

¹⁹ I called to my lovers, but they deceived me.
My priests and my elders have perished in the city;
they were looking for food to survive.

²⁰ Pay attention, Lord, for I am in trouble. My stomach is churning;
my heart is pounding inside me because I am so bitter.
In the streets the sword kills; in the house it is like death.