¹⁵ “The Lord has rejected
    all the warriors in my midst;^(A)
he has summoned an army^(B) against me
    to^[a] crush my young men.^(C)
In his winepress^(D) the Lord has trampled^(E)
    Virgin Daughter^(F) Judah.

¹⁶ “This is why I weep
    and my eyes overflow with tears.^(G)
No one is near to comfort^(H) me,
    no one to restore my spirit.
My children are destitute
    because the enemy has prevailed.”^(I)

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

¹⁸ “The Lord is righteous,^(N)
    yet I rebelled^(O) against his command.
Listen, all you peoples;
    look on my suffering.^(P)
My young men and young women
    have gone into exile.^(Q)

¹⁹ “I called to my allies^(R)
    but they betrayed me.
My priests and my elders
    perished^(S) in the city
while they searched for food
    to keep themselves alive.

²⁰ “See, Lord, how distressed^(T) I am!
    I am in torment^(U) within,
and in my heart I am disturbed,^(V)
    for I have been most rebellious.^(W)
Outside, the sword bereaves;
    inside, there is only death.^(X)

²¹ “People have heard my groaning,^(Y)
    but there is no one to comfort me.^(Z)
All my enemies have heard of my distress;
    they rejoice^(AA) at what you have done.
May you bring the day^(AB) you have announced
    so they may become like me.

²² “Let all their wickedness come before you;
    deal with them
as you have dealt with me
    because of all my sins.^(AC)
My groans^(AD) are many
    and my heart is faint.”

2 ^[b]How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion
    with the cloud of his anger^[c]!^(AE)
He has hurled down the splendor of Israel
    from heaven to earth;
he has not remembered his footstool^(AF)
    in the day of his anger.^(AG)

² Without pity^(AH) the Lord has swallowed^(AI) up
    all the dwellings of Jacob;
in his wrath he has torn down
    the strongholds^(AJ) of Daughter Judah.
He has brought her kingdom and its princes
    down to the ground^(AK) in dishonor.

³ In fierce anger he has cut off
    every horn^[d][e](AL) of Israel.
He has withdrawn his right hand^(AM)
    at the approach of the enemy.
He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire
    that consumes everything around it.^(AN)

⁴ Like an enemy he has strung his bow;^(AO)
    his right hand is ready.
Like a foe he has slain
    all who were pleasing to the eye;^(AP)
he has poured out his wrath^(AQ) like fire^(AR)
    on the tent^(AS) of Daughter Zion.

⁵ The Lord is like an enemy;^(AT)
    he has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces
    and destroyed her strongholds.^(AU)
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation^(AV)
    for Daughter Judah.^(AW)

⁶ He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
    he has destroyed^(AX) his place of meeting.^(AY)
The Lord has made Zion forget
    her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;^(AZ)
in his fierce anger he has spurned
    both king and priest.^(BA)

⁷ The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his sanctuary.^(BB)
He has given the walls of her palaces^(BC)
    into the hands of the enemy;
they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of an appointed festival.^(BD)

⁸ The Lord determined to tear down
    the wall around Daughter Zion.^(BE)
He stretched out a measuring line^(BF)
    and did not withhold his hand from destroying.
He made ramparts^(BG) and walls lament;
    together they wasted away.^(BH)

⁹ Her gates^(BI) have sunk into the ground;
    their bars^(BJ) he has broken and destroyed.
Her king and her princes are exiled^(BK) among the nations,
    the law^(BL) is no more,
and her prophets^(BM) no longer find
    visions^(BN) from the Lord.

¹⁰ The elders of Daughter Zion
    sit on the ground in silence;^(BO)
they have sprinkled dust^(BP) on their heads^(BQ)
    and put on sackcloth.^(BR)
The young women of Jerusalem
    have bowed their heads to the ground.^(BS)