Now then, this is what the Lord God of armies, the God of Israel says: “Why are you (A)doing great harm to yourselves, to (B)eliminate from yourselves man and woman, child and infant from among Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant,

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“Now this is what the Lord God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Why bring such great disaster(A) on yourselves by cutting off from Judah the men and women,(B) the children and infants, and so leave yourselves without a remnant?(C)

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19 Arise, whimper in the (A)night
At the beginning of the night watches;
(B)Pour out your heart like water
Before the presence of the Lord;
Raise your hands to Him
For the (C)life of your little ones
Who (D)languish because of hunger
At the head of every street.

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19 Arise, cry out in the night,
    as the watches of the night begin;
pour out your heart(A) like water
    in the presence of the Lord.(B)
Lift up your hands(C) to him
    for the lives of your children,
who faint(D) from hunger
    at every street corner.

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