Lamentations 2:18-20

New Century Version

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

¹⁹ Get up, cry out in the night,
    even as the night begins.
Pour out your heart like water
    in prayer to the Lord.
Lift up your hands in prayer to him
    for the life of your children
who are fainting with hunger
    on every street corner.

²⁰ Jerusalem says: “Look, Lord, and see
    to whom you have done this.
Women eat their own babies,
    the children they have cared for.
Priests and prophets are killed
    in the Temple of the Lord.