¹⁵ When you spread out your hands^(A) in prayer,
    I hide^(B) my eyes from you;
even when you offer many prayers,
    I am not listening.^(C)

Your hands^(D) are full of blood!^(E)

¹⁴ “For a long time I have kept silent,^(A)
    I have been quiet and held myself back.^(B)
But now, like a woman in childbirth,
    I cry out, I gasp and pant.^(C)

²¹ What will you say when the Lord sets over you
    those you cultivated as your special allies?^(A)
Will not pain grip you
    like that of a woman in labor?^(B)

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