Lamentations 1

¹Jerusalem was once full of people,

²We [PRS] weep bitterly all night long,

³The people of Judah have been ◄exiled/forced to go to other countries►

⁴The roads to Zion Hill are empty [PRS]

⁵Our enemies have conquered the city,

⁶Jerusalem was a beautiful city,

⁷The people of Jerusalem are sad and scattered,

⁸The people of [PRS] Jerusalem have sinned very much;

⁹The city has become filthy because of [PRS] the sins that the people have committed;

¹⁰Our enemies have taken away all our treasures,

¹¹The people of the city groan

¹²You people who pass by,

¹³It is as though he sent a fire from heaven [MTY]

¹⁴He caused the sins that we have committed to be like a heavy load for us to carry;

¹⁵Yahweh looked at our mighty soldiers

¹⁶I weep because of all those things;

¹⁷We people of [PRS] Jerusalem reach out our hands to get help,

¹⁸But what Yahweh has done to us is fair,

¹⁹We pleaded with our allies to help us,

²⁰Yahweh, see that we are suffering very much.

²¹People have heard us while we groaned,

²²Yahweh, see all the evil things that they have done