⁴ Therefore I say, “Turn your eyes away from me,
Let me ^(A)weep bitterly,
Do not ^[a]try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

¹⁶ “For these things I ^(A)weep;
^[a]My eyes run down with water;
Because far from me is a ^(B)comforter,
One who restores my soul.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy has prevailed.”
¹⁷ Zion ^(C)stretches out her hands;
There is no one to comfort her;
The Lord has ^(D)commanded concerning Jacob
That the ones round about him should be his adversaries;
^(E)Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.