Lamentations 1:11-16

Modern English Version

¹¹ All her people groan,
    as they search for bread;
they trade their treasures for food
    to restore their strength.
Look, O Lord, and consider,
    for I am despised.

¹² Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
    Look and see
if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
    which was brought upon me,
which the Lord has inflicted
    on the day of His fierce anger.

¹³ From on high He has sent fire into my bones,
    and it prevailed against them;
He has spread a net for my feet;
    He turned me back;
He has made me desolate
    and faint all the day long.

¹⁴ The yoke of my transgressions
    was bound; by His hand
they were fastened together; they were set upon my neck.
    He made my strength fail;
the Lord delivered me into the hands
    of those whom I am not able to withstand.

¹⁵ The Lord has trampled underfoot
    all my mighty men in my midst;
He has called an assembly against me
    to crush my young men;
The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah
    as in a winepress.

¹⁶ For these things I weep;
    my eyes flow with tears;
for the comforter, who should relieve my soul,
    is far from me.
My children are desolate
    for the enemy has prevailed.