^5 (A)“Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem,
    ^(B)or who will grieve for you?
Who will turn aside
    to ask about your welfare?

¹⁵ All who pass along the way
    clap their hands at you;
^(A)they hiss and wag their heads
    at the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
    ^(B)the perfection of beauty,
    ^(C)the joy of all the earth?”

^16 (D)All your enemies
    rail against you;
they hiss, they gnash their teeth,
    they cry: “We ^(E)have swallowed her!
Ah, this is the day we longed for;
    now we have it; ^(F)we see it!”

¹² “Is it nothing to you, all ^(A)you who pass by?
    ^(B)Look and see
if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
    which was brought upon me,
which ^(C)the Lord inflicted
    on ^(D)the day of his fierce anger.

¹³ “From on high he ^(E)sent fire;
    into my bones^[a] he made it descend;
^(F)he spread a net for my feet;
    he turned me back;
^(G)he has left me stunned,
    faint all the day long.

¹⁴ “My transgressions were bound^[b] into ^(H)a yoke;
    by his hand they were fastened together;
they were set upon my neck;
    he caused my strength to fail;
the Lord gave me into the hands
    of those whom I cannot withstand.

¹⁵ “The Lord rejected
    all my mighty men in my midst;
he summoned an assembly against me
    to crush my young men;
^(I)the Lord has trodden as in a winepress
    the virgin daughter of Judah.

¹⁶ “For these things ^(J)I weep;
    my eyes flow with tears;
for ^(K)a comforter is far from me,
    one to ^(L)revive my spirit;
my children are desolate,
    for the enemy has prevailed.”