The Lord has rejected all my mighty men in my midst; he has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men. The Lord has trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.

The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please listen all you people, and see my suffering. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

All that pass by clap their hands at you, they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, "Is this the city that men called 'The perfection of beauty,' 'The joy of the whole earth'?"

The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, without pity.

I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

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

For he is not predisposed to bring affliction or suffering to the children of men.

to deprive a man of justice before the face of the Most High,

to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, so that men can't touch their garments.

"Turn away." they cried to them, "Unclean. depart, depart, do not touch." When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, "They shall not live here anymore."

The young men grind at the mill; the boys stagger under loads of wood.

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