What can be said about you? To what should you be compared, fair Jerusalem? To what may I liken you, so I may comfort you, fair one of Zion? Indeed, your wound is as deep as the sea who can heal you?

Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.

{Kuf} I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the deep pit.

How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.