Lamentations 1:15-17

International Standard Version

¹⁵ He rejected all the valiant men—
    the Lord, in my midst.
He set a time to meet with me
    to crush my young warriors.
The Lord has trampled, as in a winepress,
    the fair virgin that is^[a] Judah.

¹⁶ Because of all this, I weep;
    my eyes^[b] stream with tears
because far from me
    is the comforter of my soul.
My children are sorrowful,
    because the enemy has won.

¹⁷ Zion spreads out her hands;^[c]
    no one is there to comfort her.
The Lord has issued an order against^[d] Jacob,
    that all who are around him are to be his enemies;
Jerusalem has become
    unclean among them.