May it not befall you, all who pass along the road! Look and see: Is there any grief like my grief dealt out to me, by which the LORD afflicted me in the time of his fierce wrath?

“The Lord is righteous and just;
For I have rebelled against His commandment (His word).
Hear now, all you peoples,
And look at my pain;
My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.

He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

Everyone who passes by on the road shake their fists at you. They hiss and shake their heads at cherished Jerusalem: "Is this the city men used to call "The Perfection of Beauty,' and "The Joy of the Entire Earth'"?

Arise, cry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches, pour out, like waters, thy heart, right before the face of My Lord, - Lift up, above thee, the palms of thy hands, for the life of thy children, who are swooning for hunger, at the top of all the streets!

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

He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.

He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

The Lord is good to those who wait [confidently] for Him,
To those who seek Him [on the authority of God’s word].

To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

Persecute them, O LORD, with thine indignation, and root them out from under the heaven.

Purer were her Nazarites than snow, Whiter than milk, ruddier of body than rubies, Of sapphire their form.