Lamentations 1:16-18

World English Bible

¹⁶ “For these things I weep.
    My eye, my eye runs down with water,
    because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me.
My children are desolate,
    because the enemy has prevailed.”

¹⁷ Zion spreads out her hands.
    There is no one to comfort her.
Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob,
    that those who are around him should be his adversaries.
    Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

¹⁸ “Yahweh is righteous;
    for I have rebelled against his commandment.
Please hear all you peoples,
    and see my sorrow.
    My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.