Lamentations 2:18-20

International Children’s Bible

¹⁸ The people
    cry out to the Lord.
Wall of Jerusalem,
    let your tears flow
    like a river day and night.
Do not stop.
    Do not let your eyes rest.

¹⁹ Get up, cry out in the night.
    Cry all through the night.
Pour out your heart like water
    in prayer to the Lord.
Lift up your hands in prayer to him.
    Pray for the life of your children.
They are fainting with hunger
    on 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 prophets
    are killed in the Temple of the Lord.