Lamentations 3:49-51

The Voice

⁴⁹ Quenched? It can’t be quenched,
    this sorrow in my eyes,
⁵⁰ Quelled only by knowing that
    the Eternal looks down from heaven and sees.
⁵¹ Quickly I recoil from what my eyes see; I am choked with grief
    at the fate of the young women of my city.