9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and abroken her bars. bHer king and her princes are among the1 nations; cThe Law is no more, And her dprophets find no vision from the Lord.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion aSit on the ground and keep silence; They bthrow dust on their heads And cgird themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem Bow their heads to the ground.
11aMy1 eyes fail with tears, My1 heart is troubled; bMy bile is poured on the ground Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because cthe children and the infants Faint in the streets of the city.
12 They say to their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” As they swoon like the wounded In the streets of the city, As their life is poured out In their mothers’ bosom.
13 How shall I aconsole you? To what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare with you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is spread wide as the sea; Who can heal you?
14 Your aprophets have seen for you False and deceptive visions; They have not buncovered your iniquity, To bring back your captives, But have envisioned for you false cprophecies and delusions.
15 All who1 pass by aclap their hands at you; They hiss band shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that is called c‘The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth’?”
16aAll your enemies have opened their mouth against you; They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, b“We have swallowed her up! Surely this is the cday we have waited for; We have found it,dwe have seen it!”
17 The Lord has done what He apurposed; He has fulfilled His word Which He commanded in days of old. He has thrown down and has not pitied, And He has caused an enemy to brejoice over you; He has exalted the1 horn of your adversaries.
18 Their heart cried out to the Lord, “O wall of the daughter of Zion, aLet tears run down like a river day and night; Give1 yourself no relief; Give your eyes no rest.
19 “Arise, acry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches; bPour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift your hands toward Him For the life of your young children, Who faint from hunger cat the head of every street.”
20 “See, O Lord, and consider! To whom have You done this? aShould the women eat their offspring, The children1 they have cuddled? Should the priest and prophet be slain In the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 “Younga and old lie On the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men Have fallen by the bsword; You have slain them in the day of Your anger, You have slaughtered and not pitied.
22 “You have invited as to a feast day aThe terrors that surround me. In the day of the Lord’s anger There was no refugee or survivor. bThose whom I have borne and brought up My enemies have cdestroyed.”
liver is poured, etc.—that is, as the liver was thought to be the seat of the passions, "all my feelings are poured out and prostrated for," etc. The "liver," is here put for the bile ("gall," Job 16:13; "bowels," Psalms 22:14) in a bladder on the surface of the liver, copiously discharged when the passions are agitated.
swoon—through faintness from the effects of hunger.
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