Lamentations 1

has become a slave!

They have become her enemies.

All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.

and she herself is in bitterness.

Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.

They have gone without strength before the pursuer.

They mocked at her desolations.

Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.

for the enemy has magnified himself.”

concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.

for I have become despised.”

with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.

against whom I am not able to stand.

The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press.

because the enemy has prevailed.”

Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.

At home, it is like death.

and they will be like me.

and my heart is faint.