Her uncleanness [was] in her skirts; she did not remember her future, she has descended beyond understanding, there is no comforter for her. See, O Yahweh, my persecution! [My] enemy has been made great!

Is it nothing to you, {all who pass by}? Look and see if there is sorrow like my sorrow, which was dealt to me, which Yahweh inflicted on the {day of his wrath}.

My rebellion was bound [as] a yoke, with his hand it was fastened together; it was put on my neck [and] caused my strength to fail. The Lord gave me into the hands [of those whom] I cannot withstand.

For these [things], I am weeping, {my eyes flow with tears}; because a comforter is far from me, one to restore my life. My sons are desolate because [the] enemy has prevailed.

Zion stretches out her hands; there is no one to comfort her. Yahweh has commanded against Jacob, [that] those surrounding him [should be] his enemies; Jerusalem has become a defilement among them.

Yahweh is righteous; I have rebelled [against] {his word}. Please hear, all [the] nations, And see my pain; My young women and young men went into captivity.

See, O Yahweh, that {I am in distress}; {my stomach} is in torment, my heart has turned inside me because I have certainly rebelled. From outside a sword brings bereavement, inside the house [it is] like death.

They hear that I was groaning; [there is] no comforter for me. All my enemies have heard my misery, they are pleased that you have done it. Bring [that] day that you have proclaimed, And let them be like me.

Let all their evil come before you; and deal with them just as you have dealt with me because of all my crimes; for my groaning is much and my heart [is] faint.

Her gates have sunk into the earth; he has ruined and broken her bars, her kings and its princes [are] among the nations; there is no more law. Also, her prophets have not found a revelation from Yahweh.

My eyes have {spent all their tears}; {my stomach} is in torment, {my heart} is poured out on the earth because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because child and babe faint in [the] public squares of a city.

To their mothers they say, "Where is the bread and wine?" as they faint like the wounded in [the] public squares of a city, as their life is being poured out onto the bosom of their mothers.

What can I say for you? What can I compare to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you so that I can comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction [is] as vast as the sea; who can heal you?

They clap hands over you, all who pass along the way; they hiss and they shake their head, at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city of which it is said, "A perfection of beauty, a joy for all the earth?"

They have opened their mouths against you, all your enemies. They hiss and gnash a tooth, and they say, "We have destroyed [her]! Surely this [is] the day we have hoped for; we have found [it], we have seen [it]!"

You have summoned my horror from all around, as if for a feast day; no one on the day of Yahweh's anger [is] a fugitive and a survivor; whoever I have cared for and reared, my enemy has destroyed.

To me he [is] like a bear lying in wait, a lion in hiding.

He has bent his bow and set me as the target for the arrow.

And I have said, "My glory is ruined, my expectation from Yahweh."

[They] are new in the morning, great is your faithfulness.

"Yahweh is my portion," says my soul, "Thus I will hope on him."

Yahweh is good to those who wait on him, to the person that seeks him.

[It is] good to wait in silence for the salvation of Yahweh.

[It is] good for a man who carries the yoke of his childhood.

Let {him put} his mouth in the dust; perhaps there is hope.

[Is] it not from the mouth of the Most High [that] disaster and good will come?

Let us test and examine our ways; let us return to Yahweh.

Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.

You have covered [yourself] {in anger} and pursued us, you have slain and not shown mercy.

You have made us scum and refuse in the midst of the nations.

All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.

Fear and a pit have come upon us, desolation and destruction.

Return to them what is deserved, O Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.

The precious sons of Zion weighed against fine gold, how they are thought of as earthen vessels of clay, the work of the potter's hands.

The iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom; it was overthrown in a moment and no hands were laid on her.

[Now] their appearance is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones, it has become dry like wood.

[The] hands of compassionate women, have cooked their children; they became as something to eat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

"Go away! Defiled!" they shout to them. "Go away! Go away! Do not touch!" so they left, they left; it was said among the nations, "{They will no longer dwell with us}."

Our pursuers were swifter than [the] eagles of [the] heavens; they chased us on the mountains, they have set an ambush for us in the desert.

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup will pass, you will become drunk and strip yourself bare.

The [punishment] of your iniquity is completed, O daughter of Zion, your exile will not continue; [but] he will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will reveal your sins.

Remember, O Yahweh, what has become of us; take note, and see our disgrace!

{We pay for water with money}, our wood comes [to us] at a price.

We are driven on our necks; we are weary, there is no rest for us.

Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hand.

Our skin is hot like an oven because of the scorching famine.

The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

Why have you forgotten us forever? Why have you forsaken us {for so long}?

Restore us to you, O Yahweh, that we will be restored; renew our days as of old.

Unless you have utterly rejected us, unless you are angry with us beyond measure.