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20 Look at us, Lord!
    Have you ever treated anyone else so badly?
Is it right for women to eat their own babies,
    the children they have cared for?
Should priests and prophets be killed
    in the Temple of the Lord?
21 Young men and old men
    lie on the ground in the streets of the city.
My young women and young men
    have been killed by the sword.
You killed them on the day of your anger.
    You killed them without mercy!

22 You invited terror to come to me from all around.
    You invited terror as though you were inviting it to a festival.
No one escaped on the day of the Lord’s anger.
    My enemy killed the people who I raised and brought up.

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20 “Look, Lord, and consider:
    Whom have you ever treated like this?
Should women eat their offspring,(A)
    the children they have cared for?(B)
Should priest and prophet be killed(C)
    in the sanctuary of the Lord?(D)

21 “Young and old lie together
    in the dust of the streets;
my young men and young women
    have fallen by the sword.(E)
You have slain them in the day of your anger;
    you have slaughtered them without pity.(F)

22 “As you summon to a feast day,
    so you summoned against me terrors(G) on every side.
In the day of the Lord’s anger
    no one escaped(H) or survived;
those I cared for and reared(I)
    my enemy has destroyed.”

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