1. How lonely sits the citythat was full of people!How like a widow has she become,she who was great among the nations!She who was a princess among the provinceshas become a slave.
2. She weeps bitterly in the night,with tears on her cheeks; among all her loversshe has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her;they have become her enemies.
3. Judah has gone into exile because of afflictionand hard servitude; she dwells now among the nations, but finds no resting place;her pursuers have all overtaken herin the midst of her distress.
4. The roads to Zion mourn,for none come to the festival; all her gates are desolate;her priests groan;her virgins have been afflicted,and she herself suffers bitterly.
5. Her foes have become the head;her enemies prosper,because the Lord has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions; her children have gone away,captives before the foe.
6. From the daughter of Zionall her majesty has departed.Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture;they fled without strengthbefore the pursuer.
7. Jerusalem remembersin the days of her affliction and wandering all the precious thingsthat were hers from days of old.When her people fell into the hand of the foe,and there was none to help her,her foes gloated over her;they mocked at her downfall.
8. Jerusalem sinned grievously;therefore she became filthy;all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness;she herself groansand turns her face away.