ע Ayin

16 I weep because of these things;

my eyes flowE with tears.j

For there is no one nearby to comfort me,k

no one to keep me alive.

My children are desolate

because the enemy has prevailed.

פ Pe

17 Zion stretches out her hands;

there is no one to comfort her.

The Lord has issued a decree against Jacob

that his neighbors should be his adversaries.

Jerusalem has become

something impurel among them.