Lamentations 1:16-18

Expanded Bible

¹⁶ “I cry about these things;
    my eyes overflow with tears.
·There is no one near to comfort me [^LA comforter is far from me],
    no one who can ·give me strength again [^Lrestore my soul].
My children are ·left sad and lonely [desolate],
    because the enemy has ·won [prevailed].”

¹⁷ ·Jerusalem [^LZion; ^Cthe location of the Temple] ·reaches [spreads] out her hands,
    but there is no one to comfort her.
The Lord commanded the people of Jacob
    to be surrounded by their ·enemies [foes].
Jerusalem is now unclean [1:8–9]
    ·like [^Lamong] those around her.

¹⁸ Jerusalem says, “The Lord is ·right [righteous],
    but I ·refused to obey him [^Lhave rebelled against his mouth].
Listen, all you people,
    and look at my ·pain [sorrow].
My young women and men
    have gone into captivity [1:3].