^2 (A)She weeps bitterly in the night,
    with tears on her cheeks;
^(B)among all her lovers
    she has ^(C)none to comfort her;
^(D)all her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
    they have become her enemies.

^3 (E)Judah has gone into exile because of affliction^[a]
    and hard servitude;
^(F)she dwells now among the nations,
    ^(G)but finds no resting place;
her pursuers have all overtaken her
    in the midst of her distress.^[b]

⁴ The roads to Zion mourn,
    for none come to ^(H)the festival;
^(I)all her gates are desolate;
    her priests ^(J)groan;
her virgins have been afflicted,^[c]
    and she herself suffers bitterly.

^5 (K)Her foes have become the head;
    her ^(L)enemies prosper,
because ^(M)the Lord has afflicted her
    ^(N)for the multitude of her transgressions;
^(O)her children have gone away,
    captives before the foe.

⁶ From the daughter of Zion
    all her majesty has departed.
Her princes have become like deer
    ^(P)that find no pasture;
they fled without strength
    before the pursuer.

⁷ Jerusalem remembers
    in the days of her affliction and wandering
^(Q)all the precious things
    that were hers from ^(R)days of old.
When her people fell into the hand of the foe,
    and there was none to help her,
her foes gloated over her;
    they ^(S)mocked at her downfall.

^8 (T)Jerusalem sinned grievously;
    therefore she became filthy;
all who honored her despise her,
    ^(U)for they have seen her nakedness;
she herself ^(V)groans
    and turns her face away.

⁹ Her uncleanness was ^(W)in her skirts;
    ^(X)she took no thought of her future;^[d]
therefore her fall is terrible;
    ^(Y)she has no comforter.
“O Lord, behold my affliction,
    for the enemy has ^(Z)triumphed!”

¹⁰ The enemy has stretched out his hands
    over all her ^(AA)precious things;
for she has seen ^(AB)the nations
    enter her sanctuary,
those whom you ^(AC)forbade
    to enter your congregation.

¹¹ All her people ^(AD)groan
    as ^(AE)they search for bread;
they trade their ^(AF)treasures for ^(AG)food
    to revive their strength.
“Look, O Lord, and see,
    for I am despised.”

¹² “Is it nothing to you, all ^(AH)you who pass by?
    ^(AI)Look and see
if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
    which was brought upon me,
which ^(AJ)the Lord inflicted
    on ^(AK)the day of his fierce anger.

¹³ “From on high he ^(AL)sent fire;
    into my bones^[e] he made it descend;
^(AM)he spread a net for my feet;
    he turned me back;
^(AN)he has left me stunned,
    faint all the day long.

¹⁴ “My transgressions were bound^[f] into ^(AO)a yoke;
    by his hand they were fastened together;
they were set upon my neck;
    he caused my strength to fail;
the Lord gave me into the hands
    of those whom I cannot withstand.

¹⁵ “The Lord rejected
    all my mighty men in my midst;
he summoned an assembly against me
    to crush my young men;
^(AP)the Lord has trodden as in a winepress
    the virgin daughter of Judah.

¹⁶ “For these things ^(AQ)I weep;
    my eyes flow with tears;
for ^(AR)a comforter is far from me,
    one to ^(AS)revive my spirit;
my children are desolate,
    for the enemy has prevailed.”

^17 (AT)Zion stretches out her hands,
    but ^(AU)there is none to comfort her;
the Lord has commanded against Jacob
    that his neighbors should be his foes;
Jerusalem has become
    a filthy thing among them.

^18 (AV)“The Lord is in the right,
    ^(AW)for I have rebelled against his word;
but hear, all you peoples,
    and see my suffering;
^(AX)my young women and my young men
    have gone into captivity.

¹⁹ “I called to ^(AY)my lovers,
    but they deceived me;
my priests and elders
    perished in the city,
while ^(AZ)they sought food
    to revive their strength.

²⁰ “Look, O Lord, for I am in distress;
    ^(BA)my stomach churns;
my heart is wrung within me,
    because I have been very rebellious.
^(BB)In the street the sword bereaves;
    in the house it is like death.

²¹ “They heard^{[g] (BC)}my groaning,
    yet ^(BD)there is no one to comfort me.
All my enemies have heard of my trouble;
    ^(BE)they are glad that you have done it.
You have brought^[h] the day you announced;
    ^(BF)now let them be as I am.