Weeping, she will weep in the night, and her tears upon her cheeks: no comfort to her from all loving her: all her friends dealt faithlessly with her, they were to her for enemies.

Judah was carried away captive from affliction, and from the greatness of her serving: she dwelt in the nations, she found no rest: all pursuing her overtook her between straitnesses.

The ways of Zion mourn from none coming to the appointment: all her gates being desolated: her priests groaning, her virgins grieved, and it is bitterness to her.

From the daughter of Zion all her decoration went forth: her chiefs were as rams; they found not feed, and they went without strength before him pursuing.

Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction and her wanderings, all her delights which were from the days of old in the falling of her people into the hand of the enemy, and none helping for her: the adversaries saw her; they laughed at her calamities.

All her people sighing, seeking bread; they gave from their delights for food to turn back the soul: see, O Jehovah, and regard; for I was despised.

From height he sent fire into my bones, and it brought them down: he spread a net for my feet, he turned me away behind: he gave me desolation, being sad all the day.

For these I weep; mine eye, mine eye will go down with water, for he comforting turning back my soul, removed far off from me: my sons were desolations, for the enemy prevailed.

How will Jehovah in his anger cover the daughter of Zion! he cast down from the heavens to the earth the beauty of Israel, and he remembered not the footstool of his feet in the day of his anger.

He cut off in the burning of anger all the horn of Israel: he turned back his right hand from the face of the enemy, and he will consume against Jacob as a fire of flame devouring round about

Jehovah purposed to destroy the walls of the daughter of Zion: he stretched out a line, he turned not back his hand from swallowing down: and the entrenchment will mourn, and the wall; together they languished.

Her gates sank into the earth; he destroyed and broke her bars: her king and her chiefs among the nations: no law: also her prophets found not a vision from Jehovah.

Thou wilt call as the day of appointment my sojourning from round about, and in the day of the anger of Jehovah there was no escaping and surviving: those I bore upon my hands and brought up, the enemy finished.

Thou wilt cast of my soul from peace: I forgat good.

And saying, My glory perished, and my hope from Jehovah:

For he afflicted not from his heart and grieved the sons of men,

From the mouth of the Most High shall not come forth evil and good.

Thou didst cover over thyself with a cloud from a prayer passing through.

Mine eye flowed and it will not be silent, from no intermission,

Till Jehovah shall look forth and see from the heavens.

Thou wilt pursue in thine anger, and thou wilt destroy them from under the heavens, O Jehovah.

Their form dark above blackness; they were not known in the streets: their skin adhered to their bones; it was dried up, it was as wood.

Those wounded by the sword were good above those wounded by famine: these will flow away, being thrust through from the produce of the field.

From the sins of her prophets the iniquities of her priests shedding the blood of the just in her midst,

They hunted our steps from going in our broad places: our end drew near, our days were completed; for our end came.

Servants ruled over us: none delivering from their hand.

With our souls we shall bring our bread from the face of the sword of the desert

Our skin was scorched as a furnace from the face of the violent heat of famine.

Old men ceased from the gate, the chosen ones from their stringed instruments.