Lamentations 1:11-16

International Standard Version

¹¹ All her people groaned
    as they searched for food.
They traded their valuables in order to eat,
    to keep themselves alive.^[a]
Look, Lord, and see
    how I have become dishonored.

¹² May it not befall you,^[b]
    all who pass along the road!
Look and see:
    Is there any grief
like my grief
    dealt out to me,
by which the Lord afflicted me
    in the time of his fierce wrath?

¹³ He sent fire from on high,^[c]
    making it penetrate my bones.^[d]
He stretched out a net at my feet,
    forcing me to turn back.
He made me desolate;
    I’m fainting all day long.

¹⁴ The yoke of my sins was bound on,^[e]
    fastened together by his hand.
They settled on my neck;
    he caused my strength to fail.
The Lord placed me in the power
    of those I cannot resist.

¹⁵ He rejected all the valiant men—
    the Lord, in my midst.
He set a time to meet with me
    to crush my young warriors.
The Lord has trampled, as in a winepress,
    the fair virgin that is^[f] Judah.

¹⁶ Because of all this, I weep;
    my eyes^[g] stream with tears
because far from me
    is the comforter of my soul.
My children are sorrowful,
    because the enemy has won.