ל LamedIs this nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Look and see!
Is there any pain like mine,
which was dealt out to me,
which the Lord made me suffer
on the day of His burning anger?

ס SamekThe Lord has rejected
all the mighty men within me.
He has summoned an army against me
to crush my young warriors.
The Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah
like grapes in a winepress.

צ TsadeThe Lord is just,
for I have rebelled against His command.
Listen, all you people;
look at my pain.
My young men and women
have gone into captivity.

שׁ ShinBoth young and old
are lying on the ground in the streets.
My young men and women
have fallen by the sword.
You have killed them in the day of Your anger,
slaughtering without compassion.

I am the man who has seen affliction
under the rod of God’s wrath.

It is good for a man to bear the yoke
while he is still young.

denying justice to a man
in the presence of the Most High,

Why should any living person complain,
any man, because of the punishment for his sins?

Young men labor at millstones;
boys stumble under loads of wood.

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