Lamentations 1:18-22

“Yahweh is ^arighteous;

For I have ^brebelled against His ¹command;

Hear now, all peoples,

And ^cbehold my ²pain;

^dMy virgins and my young men

Have gone into captivity.

I ^acalled to my lovers, but they deceived me;

My ^bpriests and my elders breathed their last in the city

While they sought food for themselves in order to ^crestore their souls.

See, O Yahweh, for I am in distress;

My ¹^ainmost being is greatly disturbed;

My heart is overturned within me,

For I have been very ^brebellious.

In the street the sword bereaves;

In the house it is like death.

They have heard that I ^aam sighing;

There is no one to comfort me;

All my enemies have heard of the ¹evil done to me;

They ^brejoice that You have done it.

You have brought the day which You have proclaimed,

So that they will become ^clike me.

Let all their evil come before You;

And ^adeal severely with them as You have dealt severely with me

For all my transgressions;

For my groans are great and my heart is faint.”