I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord; I will search out Your statutes.

Lord, in affliction I remembered You; Your chastening was to us with small affliction.

And as a woman in labor draws near to be delivered, [and] cries out in her pain; so have we been to Your beloved.

And their hearts did not cry to Me, but they howled on their beds: they pined for oil and wine.

HETH. And He has turned to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the measuring line, He has not turned back His hand from afflicting her; therefore the bulwark mourned, and the wall was weakened with it.

For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beetle out of the timber shall speak.

BETH. She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; and there is none of all her lovers to comfort her: all that were her friends have dealt deceitfully with her, they have become her enemies.

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.

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

PHE. My eye is drowned [with tears], and I will not be silent, so that there shall be no rest,

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

For I have heard your groaning as the voice of a woman in travail, as of her that brings forth her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion shall fail through weakness, and she shall lose the strength of her hands, [saying], Woe is me, for my soul faints because of the slain!

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.

Thus says the Lord, Call the mourning women, and let them come; and send to the wise women, and let them utter their voice;

and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.

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.