Lamentations 2:15–22

15  All that pass †by eclap their hands at thee;

They dehiss and fwag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, gsaying,

Is this the city that men call hThe perfection of beauty, iThe joy of the whole earth?

16  jAll thine enemies khave opened their mouth against thee:

They dehiss and lgnash the teeth: they say, mWe have swallowed her up:

Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, nwe have seen it.

17  oThe Lord hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded pin the days of old:

qHe hath thrown down, qand hath not pitied: and he hath rcaused thine enemy to rejoice over thee,

He hath set up sthe horn of thine adversaries.

18  Their heart cried unto the Lord,

tO wall of the daughter of Zion, ulet tears run down like a river vday and night:

Give thyself no wrest; let not xthe apple of thine eye cease.

19  Arise, ycry out in the night: in the beginning of zthe watches

aPour out thine heart blike water before the face of the Lord:

Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of cthy young children,

cThat faint for hunger din the top of every street.

20  Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom ethou hast done this.

fShall the women eat their fruit, and children ||gof a span long?

Shall ithe priest and hthe prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

21  iThe young and the old lie on the ground in the streets:

iMy virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword;

kThou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, kand not pitied.

22  Thou hast called as in la solemn day mmy terrors round about,

So that in the day of the Lord’s anger none nescaped nor remained:

oThose that I have pswaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.