ק Qoph

19 Arise, cry out in the night

from the first watch of the night.

Pour out your heart like water

before the Lord’s presence.o

Lift up your hands to him

for the lives of your children

who are fainting from hunger

at the head of every street.p

ר Resh

20 Lord, look and consider

to whom you have done this.

Should women eat their own children,q

the infants they have nurtured?C

Should priests and prophets

be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?

שׁ Shin

21 Both young and old

are lying on the ground in the streets.

My young women and young men

have fallen by the sword.

You have killed them in the day of your anger,

slaughtering without compassion.r

ת Taw

22 You summon those who terrorizeD me on every side,s

as if for an appointed festival day;

on the day of the Lord’s anger

no one escaped or survived.

My enemy has destroyed

those I nurturedE and reared.