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Lamentations 1:9 (Listen)

Her uncleanness was ain her skirts;

bshe took no thought of her future;1

therefore her fall is terrible;

cshe has no comforter.

“O Lord, behold my affliction,

for the enemy has dtriumphed!”

Footnotes

[1] 1:9 Or end

Lamentations 1:11 (Listen)

11 All her people zgroan

as hthey search for bread;

they trade their etreasures for ifood

to revive their strength.

“Look, O Lord, and see,

for I am despised.”

Lamentations 1:20 (Listen)

20 “Look, O Lord, for I am in distress;

bmy stomach churns;

my heart is wrung within me,

because I have been very rebellious.

cIn the street the sword bereaves;

in the house it is like death.