Lamentations 1:11-16

English Standard Version

¹¹ All her people ^(A)groan
    as ^(B)they search for bread;
they trade their ^(C)treasures for ^(D)food
    to revive their strength.
“Look, O Lord, and see,
    for I am despised.”

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

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

¹⁴ “My transgressions were bound^[b] into ^(L)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;
^(M)the Lord has trodden as in a winepress
    the virgin daughter of Judah.

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