Lamentations 1:2-4

Good News Translation

² All night long she cries; tears run down her cheeks.
    Of all her former friends, not one is left to comfort her.
    Her allies have betrayed her and are all against her now.

³ Judah's people are helpless slaves, forced away from home.^[a]
    They live in other lands, with no place to call their own—
    Surrounded by enemies, with no way to escape.

⁴ No one comes to the Temple now to worship on the holy days.
    The young women who sang there suffer, and the priests can only groan.
    The city gates stand empty, and Zion is in agony.