⁵ “For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem?
Or who will bemoan you?
Or who will turn aside to ask how you are doing?

¹⁵ All who ^[a]pass by ^(A)clap their hands at you;
They hiss ^(B)and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that is called
^(C)‘The perfection of beauty,
The joy of the whole earth’?”

^16 (D)All your enemies have opened their mouth against you;
They hiss and gnash their teeth.
They say, ^(E)“We have swallowed her up!
Surely this is the ^(F)day we have waited for;
We have found it, ^(G)we have seen it!”

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.”