Zion spreads forth her hands; there is none to comfort her. The LORD has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was none that escaped or remained in the day of the LORD's anger. Those that I have borne and brought up has my enemy destroyed.

He has made me to dwell in dark places, like those that have been long dead.

The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

The lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.

Those who ate delicacies are destitute in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace ash heaps.

Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; those who waste away, pierced through, for lack of the fruits of the field.