10. The hands of loving mothers cooked their own children.The children were used for food by my peoplewhen they were being destroyed ⌊by a blockade⌋.
11. The Lord’s fury has accomplished his purpose.He unleashed his burning anger.He started a fire in Zion that even burned its foundations.
12. Neither the kings of the earth nor anyone living on earth could believethat enemies or invaders would ever get through the gates of Jerusalem.
13. ⌊They got through⌋ because of the sins of Jerusalem’s prophetsand the crimes of its priests,who spilled the blood of righteous people within it.
14. My people staggered blindly through the streets.They were so contaminated with bloodstainsthat no one would touch their clothes.
15. ‘Get away! You’re unclean,’ people yelled at them.‘Get away! Get away! Don’t touch anyone.’When they fled and wandered around,the people of the nations said, ‘They can’t stay here any longer.’
16. The Lord himself has scattered them.He will no longer look favorably on them.They no longer respected the priests,nor did they honor their older leaders.”
17. “We are still straining our eyes, trying in vain to find help.We waited and waited for a nation that didn’t save us.
18. ⌊The enemy⌋ kept tracking us down,so we couldn’t even go out into the streets.Our end was near.Our time was up.Our end had come.
19. Those who were hunting us were faster than eagles in the sky.They chased us in the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.
20. The person the Lord anointed ⌊as king⌋, who is the breath of our life,was caught in their pits.We had thought that we would livein our king’s shadow among the nations.”
21. “Rejoice and be glad, people of Edom, inhabitants of the country of Uz.The cup ⌊of the Lord’s fury⌋ will be passed to you next.You’ll get drunk and take off all your clothes.