Zion spreads forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; Yahweh 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 Yahweh's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up has my enemy consumed.

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

Yahweh 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 device against me all the day.

Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.