1:17 錫安舉手，無人安慰。耶和華論雅各已經出令，使四圍的人作他仇敵；耶路撒冷在他們中間像不潔之物。
1:18 耶和華是公義的！他這樣待我，是因我違背他的命令。眾民哪，請聽我的話，看我的痛苦；我的處女和少年人都被擄去。
1:19 我招呼我所親愛的，他們卻愚弄我。我的祭司和長老正尋求食物、救性命的時候，就在城中絕氣。
1:20 耶和華啊，求你觀看，因為我在急難中。我心腸擾亂；我心在我裡面翻轉，因我大大悖逆。在外，刀劍使人喪子；在家，猶如死亡。
1:21 聽見我歎息的有人；安慰我的卻無人！我的仇敵都聽見我所遭的患難；因你做這事，他們都喜樂。你必使你報告的日子來到，他們就像我一樣。
1:22 願他們的惡行都呈在你面前；你怎樣因我的一切罪過待我，求你照樣待他們；因我歎息甚多，心中發昏。
17 Zion stretches out her hands,
but there is none to comfort her;
the Lord has commanded against Jacob
that his neighbors should be his foes;
Jerusalem has become
a filthy thing among them.
18 "The Lord is in the right,
for
I have rebelled against his word;
but hear, all you peoples,
and see my suffering;
my
young women and my young men
have gone into captivity.
19 "I called to my lovers,
but they deceived me;
my priests and elders
perished in the city,
while they sought food
to revive their strength.
20 "Look, O Lord, for I am in
distress;
my
stomach churns;
my heart is wrung within me,
because I have been very rebellious.
In
the street the sword bereaves;
in the house it is like death.
21 "They heard my groaning,
yet there is no one to comfort me.
All my enemies have heard of my trouble;
they
are glad that you have done it.
You have brought the day you announced;
now
let them be as I am.
22 "Let all their evildoing come
before you,
and deal with them
as you have dealt with me
because of all my transgressions;
for my groans are many,
and my heart is faint."
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哀歌之所以可以安慰人，就是不教訓人，更不是道德勸說，而是用同理的方式，作者將一個人受到羞辱的狀態寫出來，讓在痛苦中受羞辱的人，真正感受到有人的認同！
不僅如此，作者更是與受苦中的人同仇敵愾：「聽見我歎息的有人；安慰我的卻無人！我的仇敵都聽見我所遭的患難；因你做這事，他們都喜樂。你必使你報告的日子來到，他們就像我一樣。願他們的惡行都呈在你面前；你怎樣因我的一切罪過待我，求你照樣待他們；因我歎息甚多，心中發昏。」
作者禱告上帝報應那些恥笑與落井下石的仇敵，真是太有意思了！作者沒有鼓勵人要原諒仇敵，真的十分貼切到人的心理需要！而要原諒仇敵或愛仇敵，必須先將心中的不平先處理才有辦法，沒有處理談愛仇敵，原諒傷害我們的人，既是空談，更是不公義的事！沒有公義，就沒有和平，也就是沒有平安！
