Lamentations 1:12-22

New King James Version

¹² “Is it nothing to you, all you who ^[a]pass by?
Behold and see
^(A)If there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
Which has been brought on me,
Which the Lord has inflicted
In the day of His fierce anger.

¹³ “From above He has sent fire into my bones,
And it overpowered them;
He has ^(B)spread a net for my feet
And turned me back;
He has made me desolate
And faint all the day.

¹⁴ “The^(C) yoke of my transgressions was ^[b]bound;
They were woven together by His hands,
And thrust upon my neck.
He made my strength fail;
The Lord delivered me into the hands of those whom I am not able to withstand.

¹⁵ “The Lord has trampled underfoot all my mighty men in my midst;
He has called an assembly against me
To crush my young men;
^(D)The Lord trampled as in a winepress
The virgin daughter of Judah.

¹⁶ “For these things I weep;
My eye, ^(E)my eye overflows with water;
Because the comforter, who should restore my life,
Is far from me.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy prevailed.”

^17 (F)Zion ^[c]spreads out her hands,
But no one comforts her;
The Lord has commanded concerning Jacob
That those ^(G)around him become his adversaries;
Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

¹⁸ “The Lord is ^(H)righteous,
For I ^(I)rebelled against His ^[d]commandment.
Hear now, all peoples,
And behold my sorrow;
My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.

¹⁹ “I called for my lovers,
But they deceived me;
My priests and my elders
Breathed their last in the city,
While they sought food
To restore their life.

²⁰ “See, O Lord, that I am in distress;
My ^(J)soul^[e] is troubled;
My heart is overturned within me,
For I have been very rebellious.
^(K)Outside the sword bereaves,
At home it is like death.

²¹ “They have heard that I sigh,
But no one comforts me.
All my enemies have heard of my trouble;
They are ^(L)glad that You have done it.
Bring on ^(M)the day You have ^[f]announced,
That they may become like me.

²² “Let^(N) all their wickedness come before You,
And do to them as You have done to me
For all my transgressions;
For my sighs are many,
And my heart is faint.”