¹⁹ Listen! The cry of the daughter of my people
    from far and wide in the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    Is her King not in her?”
(“Why have they provoked me to anger with their images,
    with their foreign idols?”)^(A)

¹⁰ Where now is^[a] your king, that he may save you?
    Where in all your cities are your rulers,
of whom you said,
    “Give me a king and rulers”?^(A)
11 I gave you a king in my anger,
    and I took him away in my wrath.^(B)

⁶ Ask now and see:
    Can a man bear a child?
Why then do I see every man
    with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor?
    Why has every face turned pale?^(A)
7 Alas! that day is so great
    there is none like it;
it is a time of distress for Jacob,
    yet he shall be rescued from it.^(B)

²³ O inhabitant of Lebanon,
    nested among the cedars,
how you will groan^[a] when pangs come upon you,
    pain as of a woman in labor!