⁹ Her filthiness clung to her skirts;
    she did not consider her future.^(A)
Her fall^(B) was astounding;
    there was none to comfort^(C) her.
“Look, Lord, on my affliction,^(D)
    for the enemy has triumphed.”

¹⁶ “This is why I weep
    and my eyes overflow with tears.^(A)
No one is near to comfort^(B) me,
    no one to restore my spirit.
My children are destitute
    because the enemy has prevailed.”^(C)

¹⁷ Zion stretches out her hands,^(D)
    but there is no one to comfort her.
The Lord has decreed for Jacob
    that his neighbors become his foes;^(E)
Jerusalem has become
    an unclean^(F) thing^(G) among them.

²¹ “People have heard my groaning,^(A)
    but there is no one to comfort me.^(B)
All my enemies have heard of my distress;
    they rejoice^(C) at what you have done.
May you bring the day^(D) you have announced
    so they may become like me.

I saw the tears of the oppressed—
    and they have no comforter;
power was on the side of their oppressors—
    and they have no comforter.^(B)