Lamentations 1:18-22

Lexham English Bible

¹⁸ Yahweh is righteous;
    I have rebelled against his word.^[a]
Please hear, all the nations,
    And see my pain;
My young women^[b] and young men
    went into captivity.
¹⁹ I have called to my lovers,
    they themselves deceived me;
my priests and elders perished in the city
    when they sought food for themselves
        to revive their life.^[c]
20 See, O Yahweh, that I am in distress;^[d]
    my stomach^[e] is in torment,
my heart has turned inside me
    because I have certainly rebelled.
From outside a sword brings bereavement,
    inside the house it is like death.
²¹ They hear that I was groaning;
    there is no comforter for me.
All my enemies have heard my misery,
    they are pleased that you have done it.
Bring that day that you have proclaimed,^[f]
    And let them be like me.
²² Let all their evil come before you;
    and deal with them
just as you have dealt with me
    because of all my crimes;
for my groaning is much and my heart is faint.