30 What are you doing,(A) you devastated one?
    Why dress yourself in scarlet
    and put on jewels(B) of gold?
Why highlight your eyes with makeup?(C)
    You adorn yourself in vain.
Your lovers(D) despise you;
    they want to kill you.(E)

31 I hear a cry as of a woman in labor,(F)
    a groan as of one bearing her first child—
the cry of Daughter Zion(G) gasping for breath,(H)
    stretching out her hands(I) and saying,
“Alas! I am fainting;
    my life is given over to murderers.”(J)

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30 And you, devastated one, what are you doing(A)
that you dress yourself in scarlet,
that you adorn yourself with gold jewelry,
that you enhance your eyes with makeup?(B)
You beautify yourself for nothing.
Your lovers reject you;(C)
they intend to take your life.(D)
31 I hear a cry like a woman in labor,(E)
a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child.
The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath,
stretching out her hands:(F)
“Woe is me, for my life is weary
because of the murderers!”

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