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)