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Lamentations 2:11

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KJV ORIGINAL

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

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I've cried until I can't see anymore, my whole body is sick with grief, and I feel completely emptied out because my people have been destroyed. Little kids and babies are collapsing from hunger in the streets.

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Sometimes the pain of watching others suffer hits so deep it breaks you physically.

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