 Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children who faint from hunger at the head of every street. See, God had told him that judgment was coming, that Jerusalem was going to be demolished essentially, that the people were going into captivity. And Jeremiah cries out to the Lord with tears, with pleading, with earnestness for the lives of the children who are going to perish with hunger. There's a compassion, a tenderness, a concern here.