She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.

Her adversaries have become the head, her enemies prosper; for the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.

All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion: her leaders have become like deer that find no pasture, they fled exhausted before the pursuer.

Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she has become as an unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she groans, and turns away.

The adversary has spread out his hand on all her precious things: for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their precious things for food to refresh the soul. "Look, LORD, and see, for I am despised."

The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please listen all you people, and see my suffering. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

See, LORD, for I am in distress; my stomach churns; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled. Outside the sword bereaves, inside there is death.

They have heard that I groan; there is none to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it. Bring the day that you have proclaimed, so that they shall end up like me.

Let all their wickedness come before you. Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions. For my groans are many, and my heart is faint.

The Lord has rejected his altar, he has disowned his sanctuary, and has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces. They have made a shout in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, but have seen for you false and misleading oracles.

All your enemies have opened wide their mouth against you. 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."

Look, LORD, and see to whom you have done like this. Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, without pity.

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.

I have become a laughingstock to all my people, and their song all the day.

You have removed my soul far away from peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

But this I call to my mind; therefore I have hope:

For though he may cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the abundance of his loving kindness.

Who can speak a thing and have it come to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?

We have transgressed and have rebelled, and you have not forgiven.

You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you killed without sparing.

You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

You have made us rubbish and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

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

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

They have cut off my life in a pit, and have cast a stone on me.

Lord, you have taken up the case for my soul; you have redeemed my life.

LORD, you have seen the wrong done to me; judge my case.

You have seen all their vengeance and all their plots against me.

You have heard their insults, LORD, and all their plots against me.

The hands of the compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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

Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

We have to pay for a drink of water; our wood is sold to us.

Our pursuers are on our necks; we are weary, and have no rest.

We have submitted to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to get enough bread.

Our fathers sinned, and are no more; we have borne their iniquities.

The elders have gone from the gate, the young men from their music.

The crown is fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned.

unless you have completely rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.