Lamentations 1:7-9

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁷ Jerusalem remembers the days of her affliction and her homeless wandering.
    She remembers all her precious things which were hers from long ago.
    When her people fell under the hand of the foe, there was no one to help her.
    Foes saw her and laughed at the end she has come to.
⁸ Jerusalem has sinned terribly, so she is unclean.^[a]
    All who once honored her now despise her, because they have seen her nakedness.
    She can only sigh and turn away.
⁹ Her flow of blood stains her skirt. She did not consider the outcome of her sin.
    Her collapse was astonishing. There was no one to comfort her.
    Look, Lord, at my affliction, for the enemy has done awful things.