8. Their appearance is blacker than a coal.They are not known in the streets.Their skin clings to their bones.It is withered.It has become like a stick.
9. Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger;For these pine away, stricken through,for lack of the fruits of the field.
10. The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children.They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11. The Lord has accomplished his wrath.He has poured out his fierce anger.He has kindled a fire in Zion,which has devoured its foundations.
12. The kings of the earth didn’t believe,neither did all the inhabitants of the world,that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
13. It is because of the sins of her prophetsand the iniquities of her priests,That have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.
14. They wander as blind men in the streets.They are polluted with blood,So that men can’t touch their garments.
15. “Go away!” they cried to them.“Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch!When they fled away and wandered, men said amongst the nations,“They can’t live here any more.”
16. the Lord’s anger has scattered them.He will not pay attention to them any more.They didn’t respect the persons of the priests.They didn’t favour the elders.
17. Our eyes still fail,looking in vain for our help.In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
18. They hunt our steps,so that we can’t go in our streets.Our end is near.Our days are fulfilled,for our end has come.
19. Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky.They chased us on the mountains.They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.