²⁰ The Lord’s anointed,^(A) our very life breath,
    was caught in their traps.^(B)
We thought that under his shadow^(C)
    we would live among the nations.

¹⁰ Do not weep for the dead^(A) king or mourn^(B) his loss;
    rather, weep bitterly for him who is exiled,
because he will never return^(C)
    nor see his native land again.

⁸ May those who curse days^[a] curse that day,^(A)
    those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.^(B)

²⁰ “Go up to Lebanon and cry out,^(A)
    let your voice be heard in Bashan,^(B)
cry out from Abarim,^(C)
    for all your allies^(D) are crushed.

“Consider now! Call for the wailing women^(A) to come;
    send for the most skillful of them.
¹⁸ Let them come quickly
    and wail over us
till our eyes overflow with tears
    and water streams from our eyelids.^(B)
19 The sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
    ‘How ruined^(C) we are!
    How great is our shame!
We must leave our land
    because our houses are in ruins.’”

²⁰ Now, you women, hear the word of the Lord;
    open your ears to the words of his mouth.^(D)
Teach your daughters how to wail;
    teach one another a lament.^(E)
21 Death has climbed in through our windows^(F)
    and has entered our fortresses;
it has removed the children from the streets
    and the young men^(G) from the public squares.

⁵ when people are afraid of heights
    and of dangers in the streets;
when the almond tree blossoms
    and the grasshopper drags itself along
    and desire no longer is stirred.
Then people go to their eternal home^(A)
    and mourners^(B) go about the streets.