ב BetShe weeps aloud during the night,
with tears on her cheeks.
There is no one to offer her comfort,
not one from all her lovers.
All her friends have betrayed her;
they have become her enemies.

ז ZayinDuring the days of her affliction and homelessness
Jerusalem remembers all her precious belongings
that were hers in days of old.
When her people fell into the adversary’s hand,
she had no one to help.
The adversaries looked at her,
laughing over her downfall.

י YodThe hands of compassionate women
have cooked their own children;
they became their food
during the destruction of my dear people.

In dark places, hath he made me sit, like the dead of age-past times.

Surely My Lord, will not cast off, unto times age-abiding;

Thou, O Yahweh, unto times age-abiding, dost remain, Thy throne, from generation to generation: