Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

{Tav} My neighbours that are round about me hast thou called, as it were to a feast day: so that in the day of the LORD's wrath none escaped, neither was any left behind. Those that I had brought up and nourished, hath mine enemy destroyed.

He forced me off my way and tore me to pieces;
He left me desolate.

Good for a man that he shall lift up the yoke in his youth.

Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

"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}."

The elders have left the city gate,
the young men, their music.

Joy has left our hearts;
our dancing has turned to mourning.