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.
"My eyes do fail with tears ... my heart is troubled ... the children swoon in the streets ... or their soul is poured out in their mother's bosom"  (Lamentations 2:11-12).  This is one of the saddest pictures in the literature of mankind.  Children crying for bread, fainting from hunger in the streets, dying at their mother's breasts from starvation!  This is evidently the account of an eyewitness who had watched these things occur during that horrible siege that ended in the destruction of Jerusalem (2 Kings 25).