My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
"The breach is great like the sea; who can heal thee?"  (Lamentations 2:13). "This simply means `there is no end to it'"[18]  The thoughtless may ask, "Why does God allow terrible things like this to happen"?  But God has given men the freedom of their will, and not even the power of God can avoid the sorrows that result when men stubbornly do things contrary to God's commandments.  Suffering of the innocent, in many circumstances, is a corollary of this.  If a drunken driver guides his auto off a precipice, the innocent passengers also perish.  Zedekiah, a wicked king, violated his oath which he swore in God's name to be loyal to Nebuchadnezzar; and when he violated it, Nebuchadnezzar destroyed him, acting as God's tool in the terrible destruction; but countless innocent persons were also the victims of terrible suffering and death.  "It is monstrous to charge the providence of God with the consequence of actions which God has forbidden (W. F. Adeney)."[19]