17. Zion stretches out her hands,with no one to comfort her;The Lord has ordered against Jacobhis foes all around;Jerusalem has become in their midsta thing unclean.
18. “The Lord is in the right;I had defied his command.Listen, all you peoples,and see my pain:My young women and young menhave gone into captivity.
19. I cried out to my lovers,but they failed me.My priests and my eldersperished in the city;How desperately they searched for food,to save their lives!