New English Translation

Lamentations 1:10-13 New English Translation (NET)

10. An enemy grabbed all her valuables. Indeed she watched in horror as Gentiles invaded her holy temple – those whom you had commanded: “They must not enter your assembly place.”כ (Kaf)

11. All her people groanedas they searched for a morsel of bread.They exchanged their valuablesfor just enough food to stay alive.“Look, O Lord! Considerthat I have become worthless!”ל (Lamed)

12. Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by on the road?Look and see!Is there any pain like mine?The Lord has afflicted me,he has inflicted it on me when he burned with anger.מ (Mem)

13. He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper’s net for my feet; he made me turn back.He has made me desolate;I am faint all day long.נ (Nun)