Lamentations 1:22

¹⁰They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

¹⁸Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

¹⁴Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the LORD. Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out. ¹⁵Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth;

⁴“Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity. ⁵Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”

¹³Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

⁷Remember, LORD, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!” ⁸Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as you have done to us. ⁹Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.

³¹For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?”

⁷Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.

²³Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger.

³⁵May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!” the inhabitant of Zion will say; and, “May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!” will Jerusalem say.