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11 (A)My eyes are spent with weeping;
    (B)my stomach churns;
(C)my bile is poured out to the ground
    (D)because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
(E)because infants and babies (F)faint
    in the streets of the city.
12 They cry to their mothers,
    (G)“Where is bread and wine?”
(H)as they faint like a wounded man
    in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
    on their mothers' bosom.

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11 My eyes fail from weeping,(A)
    I am in torment within(B);
my heart(C) is poured out(D) on the ground
    because my people are destroyed,(E)
because children and infants faint(F)
    in the streets of the city.

12 They say to their mothers,
    “Where is bread and wine?”(G)
as they faint like the wounded
    in the streets of the city,
as their lives ebb away(H)
    in their mothers’ arms.(I)

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