Lamentations 2:17-19

Good News Translation

¹⁷ The Lord has finally done what he threatened to do:
    He has destroyed us without mercy, as he warned us long ago.
    He gave our enemies victory, gave them joy at our downfall.

¹⁸ O Jerusalem, let your very walls cry out to the Lord!^[a]
    Let your tears flow like rivers night and day;
    Wear yourself out with weeping and grief

¹⁹ All through the night get up again and again to cry out to the Lord;
    Pour out your heart and beg him for mercy on your children—
    Children starving to death on every street corner!