He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary, and has slain all who were pleasant to the eye. He has poured out his wrath like fire in the tent of the daughter of Zion.

LORD has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. And he has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

And he has taken away his tabernacle violently, as a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. LORD has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. And in the indignation of his anger has despised the king and

LORD has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given up the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of LORD, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

Her gates are sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her rulers are among the nations where the law is not. Yea, her prophets find no vision from LORD.

My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young sons and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city.

They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they faint as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.

What shall I testify to thee? What shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For thy breach is great like the sea; who can heal thee?

All who pass by clap their hands at thee. 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?

All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found, we have seen it.

Thou have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. And there was none who escaped or remained in the day of LORD's anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have dandled and brought up.

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

He is to me as a bear laying in wait, as a lion in concealed places.

He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from LORD.

My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.

[It is of] LORD's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions do not fail.

They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness.

LORD is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him.

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

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

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when LORD does not command it?

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to LORD.

Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

Thou have covered with anger and pursued us. Thou have slain; thou have not pitied.

Thou have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

Fear and the pit have come upon us, devastation and destruction.

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid upon her.

Her ranking men were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was as of sapphire.

Their visage is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.

[It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, so that men cannot touch their garments.

They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets. Our end is near, our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens. They chased us upon the mountains. They laid wait for us in the wilderness.

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, who dwells in the land of Uz. [Yet] the cup shall pass through to thee also. Thou shall be drunken, and shall make thyself naked.

The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion. He will no more carry thee away into captivity. He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom. He will uncover thy sins.

Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us. Behold, and see our reproach.

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.

We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us.

Servants rule over us. There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

The joy of our heart is ceased, our dance is turned into mourning.

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us! For we have sinned.

For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim,

for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk upon it.

Thou, O LORD, abide forever. Thy throne is from generation to generation.

Why do thou forget us forever, [and] forsake us so long time?

Turn thou us back to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned back. Renew our days as of old.

But thou have utterly rejected us. Thou are very angry against us.