Lamentations 1:16-18

Modern English Version

¹⁶ For these things I weep;
    my eyes flow with tears;
for the comforter, who should relieve my soul,
    is far from me.
My children are desolate
    for the enemy has prevailed.

¹⁷ Zion spreads out her hands,
    but there is no one to comfort her;
the Lord has commanded against Jacob
    that his neighbors should be his adversaries;
    Jerusalem has become a filthy thing among them.

¹⁸ The Lord is in the right,
    for I have rebelled against His commandment.
Hear now, all peoples,
    and see my sorrow;
my virgins and my young men
    have gone into captivity.