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“See, Lord, how distressed I am! I am in torment within, and in my heart I am disturbed, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is only death.
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“Let all their wickedness come before you; deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my sins. My groans are many and my heart is faint.”
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My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
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All your enemies open their mouths wide against you; they scoff and gnash their teeth and say, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day we have waited for; we have lived to see it.”
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The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. You walls of Daughter Zion, let your tears flow like a river day and night; give yourself no relief, your eyes no rest.
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Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at every street corner.
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He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver.
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Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?
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Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say:
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“All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.
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Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them!
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Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but my people have become heartless like ostriches in the desert.
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Because of thirst the infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth; the children beg for bread, but no one gives it to them.
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Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
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Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim
