18 “The Lord is (A)righteous,
For I have (B)rebelled against His [a]command;
Hear now, all peoples,
And (C)see my pain;
(D)My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:18 Lit mouth

18 “The Lord is righteous,(A)
    yet I rebelled(B) against his command.
Listen, all you peoples;
    look on my suffering.(C)
My young men and young women
    have gone into exile.(D)

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18 The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

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21 On the ground in the streets
Lie (A)young and old;
My (B)virgins and my young men
Have fallen by the sword.
You have put them to death on the day of Your anger,
You have slaughtered, (C)without sparing.

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21 “Young and old lie together
    in the dust of the streets;
my young men and young women
    have fallen by the sword.(A)
You have slain them in the day of your anger;
    you have slaughtered them without pity.(B)

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21 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.

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