Zion spreads out her hands; no one is there to comfort her. The LORD has issued an order against Jacob, that all who are around him are to be his enemies; Jerusalem has become unclean among them.

Get up and cry aloud in the night, at the beginning of every hour. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord! Lift up your hands toward him for the lives of your children, who are fainting away at every street corner.

"The LORD is all I have," says my soul, "Therefore I will trust in him."

The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the person who searches for him.

He is to sit apart and remain silent, because the LORD has laid it upon him.

Let him fall face down in the dust, so there may yet be hope.

He will endure being slapped in the face, bringing him public disgrace.

The LORD's anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. About him we had said, "Under his protection we will survive among the nations."