⁴ Look and see, there is no one at my right hand;
    no one is concerned for me.
I have no refuge;^(A)
    no one cares^(B) for my life.

¹⁷ But I will restore you to health
    and heal^(A) your wounds,’
declares the Lord,
‘because you are called an outcast,^(B)
    Zion for whom no one cares.’^(C)

¹⁸ You have taken from me friend^(A) and neighbor—
    darkness is my closest friend.

¹¹ Because of all my enemies,^(A)
    I am the utter contempt^(B) of my neighbors^(C)
and an object of dread to my closest friends—
    those who see me on the street flee from me.

¹³ “He has alienated my family^(A) from me;
    my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.^(B)
14 My relatives have gone away;
    my closest friends^(C) have forgotten me.
¹⁵ My guests^(D) and my female servants^(E) count me a foreigner;
    they look on me as on a stranger.
¹⁶ I summon my servant, but he does not answer,
    though I beg him with my own mouth.
¹⁷ My breath is offensive to my wife;
    I am loathsome^(F) to my own family.
¹⁸ Even the little boys^(G) scorn me;
    when I appear, they ridicule me.^(H)
19 All my intimate friends^(I) detest me;^(J)
    those I love have turned against me.^(K)

⁸ You have taken from me my closest friends^(A)
    and have made me repulsive to them.
I am confined^(B) and cannot escape;^(C)

²⁰ Scorn has broken my heart
    and has left me helpless;
I looked for sympathy, but there was none,
    for comforters,^(A) but I found none.^(B)