1 How the iyar (city) yashab (inhabit/dwell) badad (solitary), that was rab (full) of im (nation / people)! She has become as a alamanah (widow), who was rab (great) among the gawayam (heathen)! She who was a sharah (princess) among the madayanawath (provinces) has become mas (tributary)!
2 She bakah (weeps) bitterly in the layal (night), and her damaih (tears) are on her lachay (cheeks); among all her lovers she has none to nacham (turn away / repent) her: All her rai (neigbor/another person) have dealt bagad (treacherously) with her; they are become her ayabayam (enemies).
3 Yahawadah (Yahawadah / Judah) is galah (gone) into captivity because of inay (affliction), and because of rab (great) servitude; she yashab (inhabit/dwell) among the gawayam (heathen), she matzaa (finds) no manawach (rest): all her persecutors overtook her within the matzarayam (Matzarayam / Egypt).
4 The darakay (ways) of Tzayawan (Zion) do abal (mourn), because none bawaa (bring) to the solemn mawaid (Feast/Holy Day); all her shair (gates) are shamam (desolate), her kahan (priest) do anach (sigh): her bathawalah (virgins) are yagah (afflicted), and she herself is in bitterness.
5 Her tzar (oppressor / distressor) are become the raash (head), her ayab (enemy) shalah (prosper); for Yahawah () has yagah (afflicted) her for the rab (multitude) of her pashai (transgressions): her young iwalal (children) are halak (move) into shabay (captivity) panayam (face) the tzar (oppressor / distressor).
6 From the banath (daughter) of Tzayawan (Zion) all her hadar (glory / majesty / splendor) is departed: her shar (prince / ruler) are become like ayalayam (harts) that matzaa (find) no maraih (pasture), they are yalak (gone) without kach (strength / mighty / power) panayam (face) the radap (pursuer).
7 Yarawashalam (Yarawashalam / Jerusalem) zakar (remember) in the yamay (days) of her inay (affliction) and of her marawad (miseries) all her machamad (pleasant) things that were from the yamay (days) of qadam (old): when her im (nation / people) napal (fall / be cast down) into the yad (hand) of the tzar (oppressor / distressor), and no one izar (helped) her, The tzarayam (adversaries) raah (see / saw) her, they shachaq (mocked) at her desolations.
8 Yarawashalam (Yarawashalam / Jerusalem) has chataa (grievously) chataa (sinned); therefore she has become as an kabad (unclean) thing; all who honored her zawal (despise) her, because they raah (see / saw) seen her irawah (nakedness): yes, she anach (sighs), and shawab (turn) backward.
9 Her tamaah (filthiness) was in her shawal (skirts); she didn't zakar (remember) her acharayath (latter) end; therefore is she yarad (come) down wonderfully; she has no comforter: “raah (see), Yahawah (), my inay (affliction); for the ayab (enemy) has gadal (magnified) himself.”
10 The tzar (oppressor / distressor) has parash (spread) out his yad (hand) on all her machamad (pleasant) things: for she raah (see / saw) seen that the gawayam (heathen) are bawaa (bring) into her maqadash (sanctuary), concerning whom you tzawah (commanded) that they should not bawaa (bring) into your qahal (assembly).
11 All her im (nation / people) anach (sigh), they baqash (seek) lacham (bread); they nathan (give) given their machamad (pleasant) things for akal (food) to shawab (turn back / repent) the napash (soul): “raah (see), Yahawah (), and raah (see); for I am become abject.”
12 “Is it nothing to you, ibar (pass over/through) you who pass by? Nabat (look), and raah (see) if there is any makaab (sorrow) like my makaab (sorrow), which is brought on me, With which Yahawah () has yagah (afflicted) me in the yawam (day) of his charawan (fierce) ap (nostril / picture: bull snorting).
13 “From on marawam (high) has he shalach (send) ash (fire) into my itzam (bones), and it radah (rule over / have dominion of / subdue) against them; He has parash (spread) a rashath (net) for my ragal (feet / foot), he has shawab (turn) me achawar (back): He nathan (give) made me shamam (desolate) and dawah (faint) all the yawam (day).
14 “The il (over) of my pashai (transgressions) is shaqad (bound) by his yad (hand); They are knit together, they have ilah (go up / offer) up on my tzawaar (neck); he has made my kach (strength / mighty / power) to kashal (stumble / stagger): The Adanay () nathan (give) delivered me into their yaday (hands), against whom I am not yakal (able) to qawam (rise up).
15 “The Adanay () has set at nothing all my abayar (mighty) men in the qarab (among / near) of me; He has qaraa (called) a solemn mawaid (Feast/Holy Day) against me to shabar (crush) my bachawar (young) men: The Adanay () has darak (trodden) as in a gath (winepress) the bathawalah (virgin) banath (daughter) of Yahawadah (Judah).
16 “For these things I bakah (weep); my iyan (eye), my iyan (eye) yarad (runs) down with mayam (Waters); Because the comforter who should shawab (turn) my napash (soul) is rachaq (far) from me: My ban (son) are shamam (desolate), because the ayab (enemy) has gabar (prevailed).”
17 Tzayawan (Zion) parash (spreads) forth her yad (hand); there is none to nacham (turn away / repent) her; Yahawah () has tzawah (commanded) concerning Yaiqab (Jacob), that those who are around him should be his tzar (oppressor / distressor): Yarawashalam (Jerusalem) is among them as an nadah (unclean) thing.
18 “Yahawah () is tzadayaq (righteous); for I have marah (rebelled) against his commandment: Please shamai (hearken / hear) all you imayam (peoples), and raah (see) my makaab (sorrow): My bathawalah (virgins) and my bachawar (young) men are halak (move) into shabay (captivity).
19 “I qaraa (called) for my lovers, but they ramah (deceived) me: My kahan (priest) and my zaqan (elders) gawai (gave) up the spirit in the iyar (city), While they baqash (sought) them akal (food) to shawab (turn) their napash (soul).
20 “Raah (see), Yahawah (); for I am in tzarar (distress); my maih (heart) is chamar (troubled); My lab (heart) is hapak (turned) qarab (among / near) me; for I have marah (grievously) marah (rebelled): chawatz (abroad) the charab (sword) shakal (bereaves), at bayath (house) there is as mawath (death).
21 “They have shamai (hearken / hear) that I anach (sigh); there is none to nacham (turn away / repent) me; All my ayab (enemy) have shamai (hearken / hear) of my rai (trouble); they are shawash (glad) that you ishah (make) done it: You will bawaa (bring) the yawam (day) that you have qaraa (called), and they shall be kamaw (like) me.
22 “Let all their rai (wickedness) bawaa (bring) panayam (face) you; ilal (do) to them, as you have ilal (done) to me for all my pashai (transgressions): For my anachah (sighs) are many, and my lab (heart) is daway (faint).