Lam 2:20 See, O LORD, and look! With whom have You dealt thus? Should women eat their offspring, The little ones who were born healthy? Should priest and prophet be slain In the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lam 2:21 On the ground in the streets Lie young and old; My virgins and my young men Have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger, You have slaughtered, not sparing.
Lam 2:22 You called as in the day of an appointed feast My terrors on every side; And there was no one who escaped or survived In the day of the LORD'S anger. Those whom I bore and reared, My enemy annihilated them.
Lam 3:1 I am the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath.
Lam 3:3 Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day.
Lam 3:4 He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away, He has broken my bones.
Lam 3:5 He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.
Lam 3:6 In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead.
Lam 3:7 He has walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my chain heavy.
Lam 3:8 Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Lam 3:9 He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
Lam 3:10 He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in secret places.
Lam 3:11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.
Lam 3:12 He bent His bow And set me as a target for the arrow.
Lam 3:13 He made the arrows of His quiver To enter into my inward parts.
Lam 3:14 I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking song all the day.
Lam 3:15 He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.
Lam 3:16 He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust.
Lam 3:17 My soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten happiness.
Lam 3:18 So I say, "My strength has perished, And so has my hope from the LORD."