Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain [them] in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, [and] not pitied.
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day.
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.
