Uncleanness has soiled her skirts, and she gave no thought to what would follow. She fell in such a startling way, with no one to comfort her. Look, LORD, upon my affliction, because my enemy is boasting.

{Khaf} All her people seek their bread with heaviness, and look: what precious things every man hath, that giveth he for meat to save his life. Consider, O LORD, and see, how vile I am become.

What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

Your prophets look on your behalf; they see false and deceptive visions. They did not expose your sins in order to restore what had been captured. Instead, they crafted oracles for you that are false and misleading.

Jehovah hath done what he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word which he had commanded from the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

My soul has been cast far away from peace;
I have forgotten happiness.

This is what comes to mind, and therefore I have hope:

Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded?

What -- sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin?

until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees what has happened.

What I see grieves my soul because of all the young women of my city.

Return to them what is deserved, O Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.