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]!
2She 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.
3Judah 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].
4The 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.
5Her 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.
6From 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.
7Jerusalem [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.
8Jerusalem 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.
9Her 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]!
10The 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].
11All 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!
12Is 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!
13From 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.
14The 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.
15The 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.
16For 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.
17Zion 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].
18The 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.
19I [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.
20Behold, 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!
21[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.
22Let 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.
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