¹⁹ Woe to me because of my brokenness –
I am severely wounded!^(A)
I exclaimed, ‘This is my intense suffering,
but I must bear it.’

¹⁷ You are to speak this word to them:
Let my eyes overflow with tears;
day and night may they not stop,^(A)
for my dearest people^[a]
have been destroyed by a crushing blow,^(B)
an extremely severe wound.^(C)

Your injury is incurable;
your wound most severe.^(A)