Lamentations 2:19

¹⁹Rise during the night and cry out. Pour out your hearts like water to the Lord. Lift up your hands to him in prayer, pleading for your children, for in every street they are faint with hunger.a

Lamentations 2 shifts from the communal grief of chapter 1 to a searing, almost unbearable account of God's own hand in Jerusalem's destruction. The poet describes the Lord as an enemy who has swallowed up Israel without mercy, dismantling every symbol of security—the temple, the