¹⁹ “I called to my allies^(A)
    but they betrayed me.
My priests and my elders
    perished^(B) in the city
while they searched for food
    to keep themselves alive.

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)

¹⁰ With their own hands compassionate women
    have cooked their own children,^(A)
who became their food
    when my people were destroyed.