1How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!
2She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks:
3Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude:
4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts:
5Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper;
6And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed:
7Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries
8Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed:
9Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end;
10The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things:
11All her people sigh, they seek bread;
12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see
13From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them:
14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand:
15The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me:
16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water,
17Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her:
18The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment:
19I called for my lovers, but they deceived me:
20Behold, O Lord; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled;
21They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me:
22Let all their wickedness come before thee;