ר (Resh)
2:20 Look, O Lord! Consider!
Whom have you ever afflicted
Should women eat their offspring,
their healthy infants?
Should priest and prophet
be killed in the Lord’s
ש (Sin/Shin)
2:21 The young boys and old men
lie dead on the ground in the streets.
My young women
have fallen by the sword.
You killed them when you were angry;
you slaughtered them without mercy.
ת (Tav)
2:22 As if it were a feast day, you call
enemies
On the day of the Lord’s anger
no one escaped or survived.
My enemy has finished off
those healthy infants whom I bore