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כ⁠¹¹Mine eyes do fail with tears,

Mine inwards burn,

My liver is poured upon the earth,

For the breach of the daughter of my people;

Because the young children and the sucklings swoon

In the broad places of the city.

ל⁠¹²They say to their mothers:

'Where is corn and wine?'

When they swoon as the wounded

In the broad places of the city,

When their soul is poured out

Into their mothers' bosom.

מ⁠¹³What shall I take to witness for thee? what shall I liken to thee,

O daughter of Jerusalem?

What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee,

O virgin daughter of Zion?

For thy breach is great like the sea;

Who can heal thee?

נ⁠¹⁴Thy prophets have seen visions for thee

Of vanity and delusion;

And they have not uncovered thine iniquity,

To bring back thy captivity;

But have prophesied for thee burdens

Of vanity and seduction.

ס⁠¹⁵All that pass by clap

Their hands at thee;

They hiss and wag their head

At the daughter of Jerusalem:

'Is this the city that men called

The perfection of beauty,

The joy of the whole earth?'

ע⁠¹⁶All thine enemies have opened

Their mouth wide against thee;

They hiss and gnash the teeth;

They say: 'We have swallowed her up;

Certainly this is the day that we looked for;

We have found, we have seen it.'

פ⁠¹⁷The Lord hath done that which He devised;

He hath performed His word

That He commanded in the days of old;

He hath thrown down unsparingly;

And He hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee,

He hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries.

 

צ⁠¹⁸Their heart cried unto the Lord

'O wall of the daughter of Zion,

Let tears run down like a river

Day and night;

Give thyself no respite;

Let not the apple of thine eye cease.

ק⁠¹⁹Arise, cry out in the night,

At the beginning of the watches;

Pour out thy heart like water

Before the face of the Lord;

Lift up thy hands toward Him

For the life of thy young children,

That faint for hunger

At the head of every street.'

ר⁠²⁰'See, O Lord, and consider,

To whom Thou hast done thus!

Shall the women eat their fruit,

The children that are dandled in the hands?

Shall the priest and the prophet be slain

In the sanctuary of the Lord?

ש⁠²¹The youth and the old man lie

On the ground in the streets;

My virgins and my young men

Are fallen by the sword;

Thou hast slain them in the day of Thine anger;

Thou hast slaughtered unsparingly.

ת⁠²²Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly,

My terrors on every side,

And there was none in the day of the Lord's anger

That escaped or remained;

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