¹¹ All her people groan^(A)
    as they search for bread;^(B)
they barter their treasures for food
    to keep themselves alive.
“Look, Lord, and consider,
    for I am despised.”

¹² “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?^(C)
    Look around and see.
Is any suffering like my suffering^(D)
    that was inflicted on me,
that the Lord brought on me
    in the day of his fierce anger?^(E)

¹³ “From on high he sent fire,
    sent it down into my bones.^(F)
He spread a net^(G) for my feet
    and turned me back.
He made me desolate,^(H)
    faint^(I) all the day long.

¹⁴ “My sins have been bound into a yoke^[a];^(J)
    by his hands they were woven together.
They have been hung on my neck,
    and the Lord has sapped my strength.
He has given me into the hands^(K)
    of those I cannot withstand.

¹⁵ “The Lord has rejected
    all the warriors in my midst;^(L)
he has summoned an army^(M) against me
    to^[b] crush my young men.^(N)
In his winepress^(O) the Lord has trampled^(P)
    Virgin Daughter^(Q) Judah.

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