Lamentations 2:18-20
Easy-to-Read Version
18 Cry out with all your heart[a] to the Lord!
Jerusalem, let tears roll down your walls.
Let your tears flow like a stream day and night.
Don’t stop crying
or let your eyes dry.
19 Get up throughout the night and cry for help.
Let your sorrow pour out before the Lord like water.
Lift up your hands in prayer to him.
Ask him to let your children live.
They are starving to death on every street corner.
20 Look at us, Lord!
Have you ever treated anyone else so badly?
Is it right for women to eat their own babies,
the children they have cared for?
Should priests and prophets be killed
in the Temple of the Lord?
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:18 Cry out … heart Or “Their hearts cried out.”
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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