5 “For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem?
Or who will bemoan you?
Or who will turn aside to ask how you are doing?

6 ^aYou have forsaken Me,” says the Lord,
“You have ^bgone backward.
Therefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you;
^cI am¹ weary of relenting! ‡

8 Their widows will be increased to Me more than the sand of the seas;
I will bring against them,
Against the mother of the young men,
A plunderer at noonday;
I will cause anguish and terror to fall on them ^asuddenly. ‡

9 “She^a languishes who has borne seven;
She has breathed her last;
^bHer sun has gone down
While it was yet day;
She has been ashamed and confounded.
And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword
Before their enemies,” says the Lord. ‡