19. Get up! Cry out in the nightwhen the night watches start! Pour out your heart like waterbefore the face of the Lord!Lift up your hands to himfor your children’s lives;they are fainting at every street corner.ר (Resh)
20. Look, O Lord! Consider!Whom have you ever afflicted like this?Should women eat their offspring,their healthy infants?Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?ש (Sin/Shin)
21. The young boys and old menlie dead on the ground in the streets. My young women and my young menhave fallen by the sword.You killed them when you were angry;you slaughtered them without mercy.ת (Tav)
22. As if it were a feast day, you callenemies to terrify me on every side.On the day of the Lord’s angerno one escaped or survived.My enemy has finished offthose healthy infants whom I bore and raised.