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.
He hath fulfilled his word that he hath commanded in the days of old  (Lamentations 2:17).  Israel should not have been surprised at the destruction of their nation.  Moses had prophesied exactly what would happen to them if they forsook the Lord in  Deuteronomy 28:52f; and, as Cheyne noted, "The sacred narrator here very likely alludes to that very passage in these words."[20]