Isaiah 40:30

30Even youths shall faint and be weary,
and young men shall fall exhausted;

Jeremiah 14:18

18 aIf I go out into the field,
behold, those pierced by the sword!
bAnd if I enter the city,
behold, the diseases of famine!
cFor both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land
and have no knowledge.’”

Lamentations 1:15

15 “The Lord rejected
all my mighty men in my midst;
he summoned an assembly against me
to crush my young men;
dthe Lord has trodden as in a winepress
the virgin daughter of Judah.

Lamentations 1:19

19 “I called to emy lovers,
but they deceived me;
my priests and elders
perished in the city,
while fthey sought food
to revive their strength.

Lamentations 2:11-12

11 gMy eyes are spent with weeping;
hmy stomach churns;
imy bile is poured out to the ground
jbecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
kbecause infants and babies lfaint
in the streets of the city.
12 They cry to their mothers,
mWhere is bread and wine?”
nas they faint like a wounded man
in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
on their mothersbosom.

Lamentations 4:2

2 The precious sons of Zion,
worth their weight in ofine gold,
how they are regarded as pearthen pots,
the work of a potter’s hands!

Lamentations 5:13

13Young men are compelled to qgrind at the mill,
and boys stagger runder loads of wood.
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