She weeps bitterly 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 treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.

Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward.

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject.

Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

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

Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Your prophets have seen for you false and foolish visions; They have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, but have seen for you false oracles and causes of banishment.

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide 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 it.

Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, [and] not pitied.

You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; There was none that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up has my enemy consumed.

He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.

For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned.

You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.

You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.

Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.

Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.

You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices against me,

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

[It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.

Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.

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

The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.

But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.