Lamentations 1:18 - 1:22

“Yahweh is righteous;

For I have rebelled against His command;

Hear now, all peoples,

And behold my pain;

My virgins and my young men

Have gone into captivity.

I called to my lovers, but they deceived me;

My priests and my elders breathed their last in the city

While they sought food for themselves in order to restore their souls.

See, O Yahweh, for I am in distress;

My inmost being is greatly disturbed;

My heart is overturned within me,

For I have been very rebellious.

In the street the sword bereaves;

In the house it is like death.

They have heard that I am sighing;

There is no one to comfort me;

All my enemies have heard of the evil done to me;

They rejoice that You have done it.

You have brought the day which You have proclaimed,

So that they will become like me.

Let all their evil come before You;

And deal severely with them as You have dealt severely with me

For all my transgressions;

For my groans are great and my heart is faint.”