<p class="poetry">These double disasters confronted you.p> <p class="poetry">But who feels sorry for you?p> <p class="poetry">Destruction and devastation,p> <p class="poetry">famine and sword.p> <p class="poetry">But who consoles you?<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> cried out,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Who in the world<n id="2" /> will have pity on you, Jerusalem?p> <p class="poetry">Who will grieve over you?p> <p class="poetry">Who will stop long enough<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">to inquire about how you are doing?<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust;p> <p class="poetry">they will say, &#8216;Nineveh has been devastated!p> <p class="poetry">Who will lament for her?&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">There will be no one to comfort you!&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water.<n id="1" /> He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors<n id="2" /> and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River,<n id="3" /> because they angered the <sc>Lordsc> by making Asherah poles.<n id="4" />