Lamentations 2:18-20
Common English Bible
18 Cry out to my Lord from the heart,[a] you wall of Daughter Zion;
make your[b] tears run down like a flood all day and night.
Don’t relax at all; don’t rest your eyes a moment.
19 Get up and cry out at nighttime, at the start of the night shift; pour out your heart before my Lord like water.
Lift your hands up to him for the life of your children—
the ones who are fainting from hunger on every street corner.
20 Lord, look and see to whom you have done this!
Should women eat their own offspring, their own beautiful babies?
Should priest and prophet be killed in my Lord’s own sanctuary?
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:18 Correction; or their heart cried out to my Lord
- Lamentations 2:18 Heb lacks your.
Lamentations 2:18-20
New International Version
18 The hearts of the people
cry out to the Lord.(A)
You walls of Daughter Zion,(B)
let your tears(C) flow like a river
day and night;(D)
give yourself no relief,
your eyes no rest.(E)
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