Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem?(A)
Who will show sympathy toward you?(B)
Who will turn aside
to ask about your well-being?
You have left me.”(C)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
“You have turned your back,
so I have stretched out my hand against you
and destroyed you.
I am tired(D) of showing compassion.
I scattered them with a winnowing fork
at the city gates of the land.
I made them childless; I destroyed my people.
They would not turn from their ways.(E)
I made their widows more numerous
than the sand of the seas.(F)
I brought a destroyer at noon
against the mother of young men.
I suddenly released on her
agitation and terrors.
The mother of seven grew faint;(G)
she breathed her last breath.
Her sun set while it was still day;
she was ashamed and humiliated.
The rest of them I will give over to the sword
in the presence of their enemies.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.

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(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?
(C)You have rejected me, declares the Lord;
    (D)you keep going backward,
so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you—
    (E)I am weary of relenting.
(F)I have winnowed them with (G)a winnowing fork
    in the gates of the land;
I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people;
    (H)they did not turn from their ways.
I have made their widows more in number
    than (I)the sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of young men
    a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
    fall upon them suddenly.
(J)She who bore seven has grown feeble;
    (K)she has fainted away;
(L)her sun went down while it was yet day;
    she has been shamed and disgraced.
And the rest of them I will give to the sword
    before their enemies,
declares the Lord.”

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