Lamentations 1:7-12   New International Version    

7 In the days of her affliction and wandering     Jerusalem remembers all the treasures     that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands,     there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her     and laughed at her destruction.

8 Jerusalem has sinned greatly     and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her,     for they have all seen her naked; she herself groans     and turns away.

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

10 The enemy laid hands     on all her treasures; she saw pagan nations     enter her sanctuary— those you had forbidden     to enter your assembly.

11 All her people groan     as they search for bread; they barter their treasures for food     to keep themselves alive. “Look, Lord, and consider,     for I am despised.”

12 “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?     Look around and see. Is any suffering like my suffering     that was inflicted on me, that the Lord brought on me     in the day of his fierce anger?