We have heard the report of them; our hands are weakened. Anguish has seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.

Alas for your ruin! Your plague is grievous. And I said, Surely this is your wound, and it has overtaken you.

For the shepherds have become foolish, and have not sought the Lord; therefore the whole pasture has failed, and [the sheep] have been scattered.

I said that my bed should comfort me, and I would privately counsel with myself on my couch.

You scare me with dreams, and terrify me with visions.

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.

PHE. Zion has spread out her hand, and there is none to comfort her: the Lord has commanded concerning Jacob, his oppressors are round about him: Jerusalem has become among them as a removed woman.

And behold, as it were the likeness of a son of man touched my lips; and I opened my mouth, and spoke, and said to him that stood before me, O [my] lord, at the sight of you my insides were turned within me, and I had no strength.

And how shall your servant be able, O [my] lord, to speak with this my lord? And as for me, from now on strength will not remain in me, and there is no breath left in me.

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.