Lamentations 1:12-17

New International Version

¹² “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?^(A)
    Look around and see.
Is any suffering like my suffering^(B)
    that was inflicted on me,
that the Lord brought on me
    in the day of his fierce anger?^(C)

¹³ “From on high he sent fire,
    sent it down into my bones.^(D)
He spread a net^(E) for my feet
    and turned me back.
He made me desolate,^(F)
    faint^(G) all the day long.

¹⁴ “My sins have been bound into a yoke^[a];^(H)
    by his hands they were woven together.
They have been hung on my neck,
    and the Lord has sapped my strength.
He has given me into the hands^(I)
    of those I cannot withstand.

¹⁵ “The Lord has rejected
    all the warriors in my midst;^(J)
he has summoned an army^(K) against me
    to^[b] crush my young men.^(L)
In his winepress^(M) the Lord has trampled^(N)
    Virgin Daughter^(O) Judah.

¹⁶ “This is why I weep
    and my eyes overflow with tears.^(P)
No one is near to comfort^(Q) me,
    no one to restore my spirit.
My children are destitute
    because the enemy has prevailed.”^(R)

¹⁷ Zion stretches out her hands,^(S)
    but there is no one to comfort her.
The Lord has decreed for Jacob
    that his neighbors become his foes;^(T)
Jerusalem has become
    an unclean^(U) thing^(V) among them.