No passer-by even cares. Why doesn't someone notice my terrible sufferings? You were fiercely angry, LORD, and you punished me worst of all.
Your anger is like a flood! And I am shattered by your furious attacks
I, the LORD All-Powerful, am terribly angry— I will make the sky tremble and the earth shake loose.
The people answered, “We are wounded and doomed to die. Why did we say we could stand the pain?
Your land will be ruined, and every passer-by will look at it with horror and make insulting remarks.
I am furious! And like a violent storm I will strike those who do wrong.
I won't calm down until I have finished what I have decided to do. Some day, you will understand what I mean.
My people, soon you will suffer worse than ever before, but I will save you.
Then I said to the people of Israel, “Put on sackcloth! Mourn and cry out, ‘The LORD is still angry with us.’ ”
You made fun of my people and treated them like criminals caught in the act.
The LORD was right, but I refused to obey him. Now I ask all of you to look at my sufferings— even my young people have been dragged away.
The Lord was angry! So he disgraced Zion though it was Israel's pride and his own place of rest. In his anger he threw Zion down from heaven to earth.
Zion, how can I comfort you? How great is your pain? Lovely city of Jerusalem, how can I heal your wounds, gaping as wide as the sea?
You warned us and our leaders that Jerusalem would suffer the worst disaster in human history, and you did exactly as you had threatened.
It will be dark and gloomy with storm clouds overhead. Troops will cover the mountains like thunderclouds. No army this powerful has ever been gathered before or will ever be again.
This will be the worst time of suffering since the beginning of the world, and nothing this terrible will ever happen again.