16:5 “Moreover I, the Lord, tell you:
19:21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me,
for the hand of God has struck me.
69:20 Their insults are painful
I look
for comforters, but find none.
51:19 These double disasters confronted you.
But who feels sorry for you?
Destruction and devastation,
famine and sword.
But who consoles you?
ל (Lamed)
1:12 Is it nothing to you,
Look and see!
Is there any pain like mine?
The Lord
he
when
מ (Mem)
1:13 He sent down fire
into my bones, and it overcame
He spread out a trapper’s net
he made me turn back.
He has made me desolate;
I am faint all day long.
נ (Nun)
1:14 My sins are bound around my neck like a yoke;
they are fastened together by his hand.
He has placed his yoke
he has sapped my strength.
The Lord
to those whom I cannot resist.
ס (Samek)
1:15 He rounded up
The Lord
He summoned an assembly
to shatter my young men.
The Lord has stomped like grapes
the virgin daughter, Judah.
ע (Ayin)
1:16 I weep because of these things;
my eyes
For there is no one in sight who can comfort me
or encourage me.
My children
because an enemy has prevailed.
ס (Samek)
2:15 All who passed by on the road
clapped their hands to mock you.
They sneered and shook their heads
at Daughter Jerusalem.
“Ha! Is this the city they called
‘The perfection of beauty,
the source of joy of the whole earth!’?”
פ (Pe)
2:16 All your enemies
gloated over you.
They sneered and gnashed their teeth;
they said, “We have destroyed
Ha! We have waited a long time for this day.
We have lived to see it!”
3:7 Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust;
they will say, ‘Nineveh has been devastated!
Who will lament for her?’
There will be no one to comfort you!”