All her people sighing, seeking bread; they gave from their delights for food to turn back the soul: see, O Jehovah, and regard; for I was despised.

Nothing to you, all ye passing by the way? Behold, and see if there is pain as my pain, which was done to me with which Jehovah afflicted in the day of the burning of his anger.

I called to those loving me, they deceived me: my priests and my old men expired in the city, for they sought food for them, and they will turn back their souls.

All their evil shall come before thee; and do evil to them according as thou didst evil to me for all my transgressions: for many my groanings, and any heart being sad.

They sat upon the earth; the old men of the daughter of Zion were silent; they brought up the dust upon their head: they girded on sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem brought down their head to the earth.

To their mothers will they say, Where the grain and wine? in their languishing as the wounded in the broad places of the city, in the pouring out of their soul into their mothers bosom.

All passing by the way clapped their hands at thee; they hissed, and they will nod their head at the daughter of Jerusalem: This the city, they will say; the complete splendor of joy to all the earth.

All thine enemies opened wide their mouth upon thee: they hissed and they will gnash the teeth: they said, We swallowed down: surely this the day we longed for; we found; we saw.

Their heart cried to Jehovah, O wall of the daughter of Zion, cause tears to go down as a torrent day and night thou shalt give no remission to thyself; the daughter of thine eye shall not be silent

See, O Jehovah, and look to whom thou didst accomplish this Shall the women eat their fruit, the children borne upon the hands? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the holy place of Jehovah?

Thou wilt call as the day of appointment my sojourning from round about, and in the day of the anger of Jehovah there was no escaping and surviving: those I bore upon my hands and brought up, the enemy finished.

I was a derision to all my people; their song all the day.

He will give his mouth in the dust, if perhaps there is hope.

Thou didst cover over thyself with a cloud from a prayer passing through.

All our enemies opened their mouth against us.

Thou sawest all their vengeance, all their purposes against me.

Thou heardest their reproach, O Jehovah, all their purposes against me.

The lips of those rising up, and their devices against me all the day.

Their sitting and their rising, look thou: I their song.

Thou wilt turn back to them a retribution, O Jehovah, according to the work Of their hands.

Also the dragons draw out the breast, they suckled their sucklings: the daughter of my people violent as the ostriches in the desert.

Her consecrated ones were pure above snow, they were white above milk, they were red of body above pearls, their figure sapphire:

Their form dark above blackness; they were not known in the streets: their skin adhered to their bones; it was dried up, it was as wood.

Those wounded by the sword were good above those wounded by famine: these will flow away, being thrust through from the produce of the field.

The hands of compassionate women boiled their children: they were for food to them in the breaking of the daughter of my people.

The blind were shaken in the streets, they were stained with blood, so that they shall not be able to touch upon their garments.

The face of Jehovah their portion; he will not add to look upon them: they accepted not the face of the priests, they compassionated not the old men.

The spirit of our nostrils, the Messiah of Jehovah was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

Our fathers sinned, they are not; we bore their iniquities.

Servants ruled over us: none delivering from their hand.

Chiefs were hung by their hand: the faces of old men were not honored.

Old men ceased from the gate, the chosen ones from their stringed instruments.