ק (Qof)
2:19 Get up! Cry out in the night 1
when the night watches start! 2
Pour out your heart 3 like water
before the face of the Lord! 4
Lift up your hands 5 to him
for your children’s lives; 6
they are fainting 7
at every street corner. 8
ר (Resh)
2:20 Look, O Lord! Consider! 9
Whom have you ever afflicted 10 like this?
Should women eat their offspring, 11
their healthy infants? 12
Should priest and prophet
be killed in the Lord’s 13 sanctuary?
ש (Sin/Shin)
2:21 The young boys and old men
lie dead on the ground in the streets.
My young women 14 and my young men
have fallen by the sword.
You killed them when you were angry; 15
you slaughtered them without mercy. 16
ת (Tav)
2:22 As if it were a feast day, you call 17
enemies 18 to terrify me 19 on every side. 20
On the day of the Lord’s anger
no one escaped or survived.
My enemy has finished off
those healthy infants whom I bore 21 and raised. 22