1HOW SOLITARY {and} lonely sits the city [Jerusalem] that was [once] full of people! How like a widow has she become! She who was great among the nations and princess among the provinces has become a tributary [in servitude]!H5892H3427H910H7227H5971H490H7227H1471H8282H4082H45222She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are [constantly] on her cheeks. Among all her lovers (allies) she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.H1058H1058H3915H1832H3895H157H5162H7453H898H3413Judah has gone into exile [to escape] from the affliction and laborious servitude [of the homeland]. She dwells among the [heathen] nations, but she finds no rest; all her persecutors overtook her amid the [dire] straits [of her distress].H3063H1540H6040H7230H5656H3427H1471H4672H4494H7291H5381H47124The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly {or} the appointed feasts. All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh {and} groan, her maidens are grieved {and} vexed, and she herself is in bitterness.H1870H6726H57H935H4150H8179H8074H3548H584H1330H3013H48435Her 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 enemy.H6862H7218H341H7951H3068H3013H7230H6588H5768H1980H7628H6440H68626From the Daughter of Zion all her beauty {and} majesty have departed. Her princes have become like harts that find no pasture; they have fled without strength before the pursuer.H1323H6726H1926H3318H8269H354H4672H4829H3212H3581H6440H72917Jerusalem [earnestly] remembers in the days of her affliction, in the days of her [compulsory] wanderings {and} her bitterness, all the pleasant {and} precious things that she had from the days of old. When her people fell into {and} at the hands of the adversary, and there was none to help her, the enemy [gloated as they] looked at her, and they mocked at her desolations {and} downfall.H3389H2142H3117H6040H4788H4262H3117H6924H5971H5307H3027H6862H5826H6862H7200H7832H48688Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she has become an unclean thing {and} has been removed. All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness; yes, she herself groans {and} sighs and turns [her face] away.H3389H2399H2398H5206H3513H2107H7200H6172H584H7725H2689Her filthiness was in {and} on her skirts; she did not [seriously and earnestly] consider her final end. Therefore she has come down [from throne to slavery] singularly {and} astonishingly; she has no comforter. O Lord [cries Jerusalem], look at my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself [in triumph]!H2932H7757H2142H319H3381H6382H5162H3068H7200H6040H341H143110The adversary has spread out his hand upon all her precious {and} desirable things; for she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary [of the temple]--when You commanded that they should not even enter Your congregation [in the outer courts].H6862H6566H3027H4261H7200H1471H935H4720H6680H935H695111All her people groan {and} sigh, seeking for bread; they have given their desirable {and} precious things [in exchange] for food to revive their strength {and} bring back life. See, O Lord, and consider how wretched {and} lightly esteemed, how vile {and} abominable, I have become!H5971H584H1245H3899H5414H4261H4262H400H7725H5315H7200H3068H5027H215112Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow which was dealt out to me, with which the Lord has afflicted me in the day of His fierce anger!H5674H1870H5027H7200H3426H4341H4341H5953H3068H3013H3117H2740H63913From above He has sent fire into my bones, and it prevailed against them. He has spread a net for my feet; He has turned me back. He has made me hopelessly miserable and faint all the day long.H4791H7971H784H6106H7287H6566H7568H7272H7725H268H5414H8074H1739H311714The yoke of my transgressions is bound by His hand; they were twined together; they were set upon my neck. He has made my strength fail {and} [me to] stumble; the Lord has delivered me into the hands of those I am unable to resist {or} withstand.H5923H6588H8244H3027H8276H5927H6677H3581H3782H136H5414H3027H3201H696515The Lord has made of no account all my [Jerusalem's] mighty men in the midst of me; He has proclaimed a set time against me to crush my young men. The Lord has trodden as in a winepress the Virgin Daughter of Judah.H136H5541H47H7130H7121H4150H7665H970H136H1869H1330H1323H3063H166016For these things I weep; my eyes overflow with tears, because a comforter, one who could refresh {and} restore my soul, is far from me. My children are desolate {and} perishing, for the enemy has prevailed.H1058H5869H5869H3381H4325H5162H7725H5315H7368H1121H8074H341H139617Zion stretches forth her hands, but there is no comforter for her. The Lord has commanded concerning {and} against Jacob that his neighbors should be his adversaries; Jerusalem has become a filthy thing among them [an object of contempt].H6726H6566H3027H5162H3068H6680H3290H6862H5439H3389H507918The Lord is righteous (just and in the right); for I have rebelled against His commandment (His word). Hear, I pray you, all you peoples, and look at my sorrow {and} suffering; my maidens and my young men have gone into captivity.H3068H6662H4784H6310H8085H5971H7200H4341H1330H970H1980H762819I [Jerusalem] called to my lovers [allies], but they deceived me. My priests and my elders expired in the city while they sought food to save their lives.H7121H157H7411H3548H2205H1478H5892H1245H400H7725H531520Behold, O Lord, how distressed I am! My vital parts (emotions) are in tumult {and} are deeply disturbed; my heart cannot rest {and} is violently agitated within me, for I have grievously rebelled. Outside the house the sword bereaves, at home there is [famine, pestilence] death!H7200H3068H6887H4578H2560H3820H2015H7130H4784H4784H2351H2719H7921H1004H419421[My foes] have heard that I [Jerusalem] sigh {and} groan, that I have no comforter [in You]. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad [O Lord] that You have done it. You will bring the day [of Judah's punishment] that you have foretold {and} proclaimed; [it involves also my foes' punishment] and they will become like me.H8085H584H5162H341H8085H7451H7797H6213H935H3117H7121H364422Let all their wickedness come before You; and deal with them as You have dealt with me because of all my transgressions; for my sighs {and} groans are many and my heart is faint.H7451H935H6440H5953H5953H6588H585H7227H3820H1742