1The city’s feeling lonely AF, used to be poppin’ with peeps! Now she’s like a widow, once a queen among nations, now just a side piece.

2She’s crying hard at night, tears streaming down her face: none of her homies are there to vibe with her, all her friends turned sus, now they’re the ops.

3Judah’s caught up in the struggle, serving hard: she’s chillin’ with the outsiders, can’t catch a break, all her haters are on her case.

4Zion’s in the feels, no one’s showing up for the festivals: all her gates are ghost town vibes, her priests are sighing, and her girls are hurting, it’s straight-up rough.

5Her foes are thriving, her enemies are winning; God’s put her through the wringer for all her mess-ups: her kids got taken by the enemy.

6All the beauty's left Zion; her leaders are like lost deer looking for food, totally drained by the chasers.

7Jerusalem’s reminiscing about the good times when she was lit; now her crew fell to the enemy, and no one’s stepping up to help her: her foes are laughing at her struggles.

8Jerusalem messed up big time; now she’s outta the game: everyone who used to hype her up is looking down on her because they saw her at her lowest: she’s sighing and looking back.

9She’s got dirt all over her clothes; she doesn’t remember how it all ended; she fell hard and has no one to lift her up. Yo, Lord, check out my pain: the enemy is flexing on me.

10The enemy’s grabbed everything good from her: she watched the outsiders roll into her sacred spot, the place God said they shouldn’t be.

11Everyone’s sighing, looking for food; they traded their good stuff just to fill their bellies: see me, Lord, and think about it; I’m feeling hella low.

12Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Check this out, see if anyone’s sorrow is like mine, which the Lord has laid on me during his rage.

13From above, He sent fire into my bones, and it’s hitting hard: He set a trap for my feet, turned me around: I’m feeling lost and weak all day.

14The weight of my mess-ups is heavy on my neck: it’s pulling me down; He’s made my strength disappear, the Lord’s handed me over to the ones I can’t escape.

15The Lord’s crushed all my strong guys right in front of me: He gathered a squad to take out my young men: the Lord’s treated the daughter of Judah like grapes in a press.

16I’m crying over this; my eyes are pouring out tears, 'cause the one who should’ve lifted me up is nowhere to be found: my kids are lost, 'cause the enemy won.

17Zion’s reaching out, but no one’s there to comfort her: the Lord’s said the opponents should surround Jacob: Jerusalem’s feeling like a girl on her period among them.

18The Lord’s keeping it real; I’ve gone against His rules: listen up, all y’all, and see my pain: my girls and my young men are taken away.

19I called out for my peeps, but they played me: my priests and elders checked out in the city, just trying to eat to survive.

20Yo, Lord, check it; I’m in a tough spot: my insides are all messed up, my heart’s heavy: I’ve really messed up; outside there's danger, at home it’s like death.

21They heard me sighing: no one’s there to comfort me: all my enemies know I’m hurting; they’re stoked that You did this: You’re gonna bring the day You called, and they’ll be just like me.

22Let all their bad vibes come to You; do to them what You did to me for all my mess-ups: my sighs are too many, and my heart is weak.

1How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

2She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

3Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

5Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

6And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

7Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

8Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

9Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O Lord, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.

10The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

11All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile.

12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

13From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

15The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.

16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

17Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the Lord hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.

18The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

19I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.

20Behold, O Lord; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

21They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

22Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.