She weeps bitterly in the night, her tears [are] on her cheeks; she has no comforter among all her lovers. All her friends have been unfaithful to her; they have become her enemies.

Judah has gone into exile with misery and under hard servitude; she lives among the nations, she has not found a resting place; all her pursuers have overtaken her amidst [her] distress.

Her foes have become [her] {master}, her enemies are at ease; Yahweh has made her suffer because of the greatness of her transgressions. Her children have gone away, captive before the foe.

All her majesty has gone away from the daughter of Zion; her princes have become like young stags that have not found pasture; they have gone away without strength, before the pursuer.

Jerusalem sinned grievously, thus she became an objection of derision; all those who honored her despise her because they have seen her nakedness. She herself groans and turns away.

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.

I have called to my lovers, they themselves deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city when they sought food for themselves to revive their life.

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.

The Lord has rejected his altar; he has rejected his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hands of the enemy the walls of its citadel fortresses. They have cried out in the house of Yahweh like a day of an appointed feast.

Yahweh has planned to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He measured [with] a line; he has not restrained his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to mourn; together they have languished away.

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.

They sit on the ground, the elders of the daughter of Zion are silent. They cast dust on their head, they have put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their head down to the ground.

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.

Your prophets had a vision for you, false and worthless; they have not exposed your sin, to restore your fortune; they have seen oracles for you, false and misleading.

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]!"

See, Yahweh, and take note! With whom have you dealt thus? Should women eat their young children of tender care? Should priest and prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

They lie in [the] soil of [the] streets, young and old; my young women and young men, they have fallen by the sword; you have slain on the day of {your anger}, you have slaughtered and not shown mercy.

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.

I have become a laughingstock for all the people, their mocking song all day long.

My life has been removed from peace, I have forgotten goodness.

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

This {I have reminded myself}, therefore I will hope.

We ourselves have transgressed and rebelled, you have not forgiven.

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

You have covered yourself in a cloud {so that prayer cannot pass through}.

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.

My eyes have poured down unceasingly without respite,

{They have silenced me in a pit}, they have thrown a stone at me.

I have called your name, O Yahweh, from the depths of the pit.

You have heard my cry, "Do not shut your ear to my cry for help, for my relief!"

O Lord, you have pleaded for {my cause}, you have redeemed my life.

You have seen my injustice, O Yahweh; judge my case.

You have seen all their vengeance, all there plans against me.

You have heard their disgrace, O Yahweh, all their plans against me.

Happier were [the] victims of [the] sword than the victims of famine; they have pined away, very hungry for the crops of my field.

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

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.

We have become orphans, fatherless, our mothers are like widows.

We have made a deal with Egypt [and] Assyria to be satisfied [with] food.

Our fathers have sinned, they are no more; we bear their iniquity.

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

Because of this, our heart has become faint, because of these, our eyes have become dim.

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

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