Jerusalem remembers her time of affliction and misery; all her valued belongings of days gone by, when her people fell into enemy hands, with no one to help her, and her enemies stared at her, mocking her downfall.

Indeed, when I cry out, calling for help, he shuts out my prayer.

It is good when a young man carries the yoke of discipline in his youth.

When any of the prisoners of the earth are crushed underfoot,

when a person's rights are perverted in defiance of the Most High.

When a man is thwarted in his appeal, does the Lord condone it?

You drew near when I called out to you. You said, "Stop being afraid"

With their own hands, compassionate women boil their own children they become their food when my beloved people were destroyed.

"Go away! Unclean!" they shouted at them. "Go away! Go away! Don't touch!" When they fled away and wandered, those among the nations decreed, "They cannot live here!"