Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? Then would I weep for this my people day and night, [even] for the slain of the daughter of my people.

Take up a lamentation for the mountains, and a mournful dirge for the paths of the wilderness, for they are desolate from a lack of men; they heard not the sound of life from the birds of the sky, nor the cattle. They were amazed, they are gone.

But if you will not hear it, your soul shall weep in secret because of pride, and your eyes shall pour down tears, because the Lord's flock is sorely bruised.

And you shall speak this word to them: Let your eyes shed tears day and night, and let them not cease; for the daughter of My people has been sorely bruised, and her plague is very grievous.

If I go forth into the plain, then behold the slain by the sword! And if I enter into the city, then behold the distress of famine! For priest and prophet have gone to a land which they knew not.

My heart is broken within me; all my bones are shaken. I have become as a broken down man, and as a man overcome with wine, because of the Lord, and because of the excellence of His glory.

Therefore howl for Moab on all sides; cry out against the shorn men [in] a gloomy place. I will weep for you,

O vine of Sibma, as with the weeping of Jazer. Your branches are gone over the sea, they reached the cities of Jazer; destruction has come upon your fruits, [and] upon your grape gatherers.

Despair took hold upon me, because of the sinners who forsake Your law.

My eyes have been bathed in streams of water, because I kept not Your law.

The heart of the region of Moab cries within her to Segor; for it is [as] a heifer of three years old; and on the Ascent of Luith they shall go up to you weeping by the way of Aroniim; she cries, Destruction, and trembling.

Therefore my belly shall sound as a harp for Moab, and you have repaired my inward parts as a wall.

Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman; I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hastened that I might not see.

Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the breach of the daughter of my people.

AIN. My eye has poured out water, because He that should comfort me, that should restore my soul, has been removed far from me. My sons have been destroyed, because the enemy has prevailed.

CHAPH. My eyes have failed with tears, my heart is troubled, my glory is cast down to the ground, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; while the infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city.

My eye shall pour down torrents of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

until the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.

[As for] me, Daniel, my spirit in my body trembled, and the visions of my head troubled me.

This is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts greatly troubled me, and my countenance was changed: but I kept the matter in my heart.

And I, Daniel, fell asleep, and was sick. Then I arose, and did the king's business; and I was astonished by the vision, and there was none that understood [it].

I watched, and my belly trembled at the sound of the prayer of my lips, and trembling entered into my bones, and my frame was troubled within me; I will rest in the day of affliction, from going up to the people of my sojourning.

And as He drew near, seeing the city, He wept over it,

saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things pertaining to your peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.

that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

For I could wish that I myself to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brothers, my countrymen according to the flesh,

Brothers, the good pleasure of my heart and my supplication to God on behalf of Israel, is for [their] salvation.

My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you!

Let not my soul come into their counsel, and let not my inward parts contend in their conspiracy, for in their wrath they slew men, and in their passion they hamstrung a bull.

The brook of Kishon swept them away, the ancient brook, the brook Kishon: my mighty soul will trample him down.

I said to the Lord, You are my Lord; my goodness is nothing apart from You.

Why are you downcast, O my soul? And why do you trouble me? Hope in God; for I will give thanks to Him; [He is] the salvation of my countenance.

O my God, my soul has been troubled within me; therefore will I remember You from the land of the Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the little hill.

[A Psalm] of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all [that is] within me, [bless] His holy name.

Return to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.

Alleluia, [A Psalm] of Aggaeus and Zacharias. Praise the Lord, O my soul!.

Declare in Judah, and let it be heard in Jerusalem. Say, Sound the trumpet in the land; cry aloud: say, Gather yourselves together, and let us enter into the fortified cities.

How long shall I see fugitives, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? Shall there be evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought?

A mighty day of wrath is that day, a day of affliction and distress, a day of desolation and destruction, a day of gloominess and darkness, a day of clouds and vapor,

a day of the trumpet and cry against the strong cities, and against the high towers.