1How the city sits solitary,
2She weeps bitterly in the night.
3Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction
4The roads to Zion mourn,
5Her adversaries have become the head.
6All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion.
7Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries
8Jerusalem has grievously sinned.
9Her filthiness was in her skirts.
10The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things;
11All her people sigh.
12“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
13“From on high has he sent fire into my bones,
14“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand.
15“The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me.
16“For these things I weep.
17Zion spreads out her hands.
18“The LORD is righteous,
19“I called for my lovers,
20“Look, LORD; for I am in distress.
21“They have heard that I sigh.
22“Let all their wickedness come before you.