Lamentations 1:17-19

Modern English Version

¹⁷ Zion spreads out her hands,
    but there is no one to comfort her;
the Lord has commanded against Jacob
    that his neighbors should be his adversaries;
    Jerusalem has become a filthy thing among them.

¹⁸ The Lord is in the right,
    for I have rebelled against His commandment.
Hear now, all peoples,
    and see my sorrow;
my virgins and my young men
    have gone into captivity.

¹⁹ I called for my lovers,
    but they deceived me;
my priests and my elders
    perished in the city,
while they sought food
    to restore their strength.