Lamentations 1:7–22
7 In the days of her affliction and roaming,
Jerusalem lremembers all her pleasant things
That she had in the days of old.
When her people fell into the hand of the enemy,
With no one to help her,
The adversaries saw her
And mocked at her 6downfall.
8 mJerusalem has sinned gravely,
Therefore she has become 7vile.
All who honored her despise her
Because nthey have seen her nakedness;
Yes, she sighs and turns away.
9 Her uncleanness is in her skirts;
She odid not consider her destiny;
Therefore her collapse was awesome;
She had no comforter.
“O Lord, behold my affliction,
For the enemy is exalted!”
10 The adversary has spread his hand
Over all her 8pleasant things;
For she has seen pthe nations enter her 9sanctuary,
Those whom You commanded
qNot to enter Your assembly.
They have given their 2valuables for food to restore life.
“See, O Lord, and consider,
For I am scorned.”
12 “Is it nothing to you, all you who 3pass by?
Behold and see
sIf there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
Which has been brought on me,
Which the Lord has inflicted
In the day of His fierce anger.
13 “From above He has sent fire into my bones,
And it overpowered them;
He has tspread a net for my feet
And turned me back;
He has made me desolate
And faint all the day.
14 “The uyoke of my transgressions was 4bound;
They were woven together by His hands,
And thrust upon my neck.
He made my strength fail;
The Lord delivered me into the hands of those whom I am not able to withstand.
15 “The Lord has trampled underfoot all my mighty men in my midst;
He has called an assembly against me
To crush my young men;
vThe Lord trampled as in a winepress
The virgin daughter of Judah.
My eye, wmy eye overflows with water;
Because the comforter, who should restore my life,
Is far from me.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy prevailed.”
17 xZion 5spreads out her hands,
But no one comforts her;
The Lord has commanded concerning Jacob
That those yaround him become his adversaries;
Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.
18 “The Lord is zrighteous,
For I arebelled against His 6commandment.
Hear now, all peoples,
And behold my sorrow;
My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.
But they deceived me;
My priests and my elders
Breathed their last in the city,
While they sought food
To restore their life.
20 “See, O Lord, that I am in distress;
My heart is overturned within me,
For I have been very rebellious.
cOutside the sword bereaves,
At home it is like death.
21 “They have heard that I sigh,
But no one comforts me.
All my enemies have heard of my trouble;
They are dglad that You have done it.
Bring on ethe day You have 8announced,
That they may become like me.
22 “Let fall their wickedness come before You,
And do to them as You have done to me
For all my transgressions;
For my sighs are many,
And my heart is faint.”