She bitterly weeps in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers, she has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt deceitfully with her; they became her enemies.

Judah went into captivity because of affliction, and from great slavery. She dwells among the nations; she finds no rest; all her pursuers have overtaken her between the narrows.

Her enemies have become as chief; her haters are at ease; for Jehovah has afflicted her for the multitude of her sins. Her children have gone, captive before the enemy.

And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty has departed. Her rulers have become like bucks: they find no pasture, and they have gone without strength before the pursuer.

All her people sigh; they seek bread. They have given their desirable things for food to relieve the soul. See, O Jehovah, and look on me, for I have become vile.

Jehovah is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. I beseech you, all peoples, hear and behold my sorrow. My virgins and my young men went into exile.

Behold, O Jehovah, for I am in trouble; my inward parts ferment; my heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled. On the outside the sword bereaves; in the house it is as death.

They hear that I sigh; there is none to comfort me. All my enemies have heard my evil; they are glad that You have done it. You will bring the day that You have called, and they shall be like me.

Let all 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.

Her gates have sunk in the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her kings and her rulers are among the nations. The Law is no more; also her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah.

Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you, and they have not uncovered your iniquity, to turn away your captivity; but they have seen false oracles and seductions for you.

All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; they hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen.

Behold, O Jehovah, and consider to whom You have done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, children of tender care? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the holy place of the Lord?

Young and old lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of Your anger; You have killed and not pitied.

You have called as in a solemn day my terrors all around, and there was not an escaped one or a survivor in the day of Jehovah's anger. Those whom I have nursed and multiplied, my enemy has consumed.

I the man have seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

And You cast off my soul from peace; I have forgotten blessedness.

for though He causes grief, yet He will have pity according to the multitude of His kindnesses.

We have sinned and have rebelled; You have not forgiven.

You have wrapped Yourself with anger and pursued us; You have slain; You have not pitied.

You have wrapped Yourself with a cloud from any prayer passing through.

You have made us as the sweepings and garbage in the midst of the peoples.

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

Fear and a pit have come to us, shame and ruin.

My haters have hunted me, like a bird, without cause.

They have cut off my life in the pit, and cast a stone at me.

You have heard my voice; do not hide Your ear at my relief, at my cry for help.

O Jehovah, You have seen my wrong; judge my cause.

You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.

You have heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their plots against me;

The hands of the pitying women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the ruin of the daughter of my people.

The kings of the earth, and all the people of the world, would not have believed that the foe and the hater would go into Jerusalem's gates.

While we are, our eyes fail, for our help is vain; in our watching we have watched for a nation; it does not save.

We have drunk our water for silver; our wood comes for a price.

We have given the hand to Egypt, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.

Our fathers have sinned and are not; we have borne their iniquities.

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe now to us! For we have sinned.

unless You have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.