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)

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  1. Lamentations 1:14 Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint He kept watch over my sins
  2. Lamentations 1:15 Or has set a time for me / when he will

11 All her people groan
    as they search for bread;
they trade their treasures for food
    to revive their lives.
Look, O Lord, and see
    how worthless I have become.(A)

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

13 From on high he sent fire;
    it went deep into my bones;
he spread a net for my feet;
    he turned me back;
he has left me stunned,
    faint all day long.(C)

14 My transgressions were bound[b] into a yoke;
    by his hand they were fastened together;
they weigh on my neck,
    sapping my strength;
the Lord handed me over
    to those whom I cannot withstand.(D)

15 The Lord has rejected
    all my warriors in the midst of me;
he proclaimed a time against me
    to crush my young men;
the Lord has trodden as in a winepress
    the virgin daughter Judah.(E)

16 For these things I weep;
    my eyes[c] flow with tears;
for a comforter is far from me,
    one to revive my courage;
my children are desolate,
    for the enemy has prevailed.(F)

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  1. 1.12 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 1.14 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  3. 1.16 Heb my eye, my eye