² Judah mourns, and the gates of it languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

²⁶ Her gates shall lament and mourn; And she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

²¹ For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.

¹² The men who didn't die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

¹¹ Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, but I will not listen to them.

⁸ Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

⁹ Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.

¹³ It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said Yahweh of Hosts;

⁶ At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.

¹⁰ The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, And the oil languishes.

³ Therefore the land will mourn, And everyone who dwells therein will waste away. All living things in her, Even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; Yes, the fish of the sea also die.

¹⁰ Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

⁹ Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.

²² Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

¹⁶ Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel; and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked on my people, because their cry is come to me.

²⁸ So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, He heard the cry of the afflicted.

⁷ For the vineyard of Yahweh of Hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah his pleasant plant: And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; For righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

⁵ My heart cries out for Moab; her nobles [flee] to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.

⁴ The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.

⁷ The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

⁹ The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their leaves].

²⁸ For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.

⁴ How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

²⁴ God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.