11. All her people groanwhile they search for bread. They have traded their precious belongings for foodin order to stay alive. Lord, look and seehow I have become despised.
12. Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see!Is there any pain like mine,which was dealt out to me,which the Lord made me sufferon the day of His burning anger?
13. He sent fire from heaven into my bones;He made it descend. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back.He made me desolate,sick all day long.
14. My transgressions have been formed into a yoke, fastened together by His hand;they have been placed on my neck,and the Lord has broken my strength.He has handed me overto those I cannot withstand.
15. The Lord has rejected all the mighty men within me.He has summoned an army against meto crush my young warriors.The Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah like grapes in a winepress.
16. I weep because of these things;my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to keep me alive.My children are desolatebecause the enemy has prevailed.
17. Zion stretches out her hands;there is no one to comfort her.The Lord has issued a decree against Jacobthat his neighbors should be his adversaries.Jerusalem has becomesomething impure among them.