These two things have come to you; Who will be sorry for you?— Desolation and destruction, famine and sword— By whom will I comfort you?

荒凉、毁灭、饥荒、刀兵，这几样临到你，谁为你举哀？我如何能安慰你呢？

这双重的灾难临到你，有谁怜悯你呢？破坏和毁灭，饥荒和战争临到，我如何能安慰你呢？

这双重的灾难临到你，有谁怜悯你呢？破坏和毁灭，饥荒和战争临到，我如何能安慰你呢？

荒凉、毁灭、饥荒、战祸已临到你身上，谁会为你哀哭呢？谁能安慰你呢？

荒凉与毁灭，饥荒与刀剑，这两样临到你，谁为你悲哀呢？谁能安慰你呢？（按照《马索拉文本》，“谁能安慰你呢？”作“我如何能安慰你呢？”；现参照《死海古卷》和其他古译本翻译）

毁坏与破败，饥荒与刀剑，这两组事情已经临到你，谁会为你悲哀呢？谁会安慰你呢？

荒涼、毀滅、饑荒、刀兵，這幾樣臨到你，誰為你舉哀？我如何能安慰你呢？

這雙重的災難臨到你，有誰憐憫你呢？破壞和毀滅，饑荒和戰爭臨到，我如何能安慰你呢？

這雙重的災難臨到你，有誰憐憫你呢？破壞和毀滅，饑荒和戰爭臨到，我如何能安慰你呢？

荒涼、毀滅、饑荒、戰禍已臨到你身上，誰會為你哀哭呢？誰能安慰你呢？

荒涼與毀滅，饑荒與刀劍，這兩樣臨到你，誰為你悲哀呢？誰能安慰你呢？（按照《馬索拉文本》，“誰能安慰你呢？”作“我如何能安慰你呢？”；現參照《死海古卷》和其他古譯本翻譯）

毁滅和破毁、饑荒和刀兵——這兩樣臨到你，誰為你悲傷呢？誰安慰你呢？

毀壞與破敗，饑荒與刀劍，這兩組事情已經臨到你，誰會為你悲哀呢？誰會安慰你呢？

荒涼傾覆、饑饉干戈、爾遭此災、誰為爾哀、我何以慰爾哉、

二難並至、饑饉薦臻、干戈不息、將滅斯邦、孰能慰藉爾、以解爾憂。

滅民之饑荒、喪國之兵刃、此二災並臨於爾、誰憫爾、我何以慰爾、

These double calamities have come upon you— who can comfort you?— ruin and destruction, famine and sword— who can console you?

Nothing but trouble has come to you. You have been wiped out and destroyed. And you have suffered hunger and war. No one feels sorry for you. No one can comfort you.

These two things have happened to you— who will console you?— devastation and destruction, famine and sword; who will comfort you?

These two calamities have fallen on you: desolation and destruction, famine and war. And who is left to sympathize with you? Who is left to comfort you?

These two things have happened to you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? How can I comfort you?

These two things have happened to you; Who will mourn for you? The devastation and destruction, famine and sword; How shall I comfort you?

These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?

These two things have happened to you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? How can I comfort you?

These two[ things] are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

These double disasters confronted you. But who feels sorry for you? Destruction and devastation, famine and sword. But who consoles you?

These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you?

But these two things shall come to you In a moment, in one day: The loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come upon you in their fullness Because of the multitude of your sorceries, For the great abundance of your enchantments.

And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said:“ O Lord GOD, forgive, I pray! Oh, that Jacob may stand, For he is small!”

Her uncleanness is in her skirts; She did not consider her destiny; Therefore her collapse was awesome; She had no comforter.“ O Lord, behold my affliction, For the enemy is exalted!”

Reproach has broken my heart, And I am full of heaviness; I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

“ For these things I weep; My eye, my eye overflows with water; Because the comforter, who should restore my life, Is far from me. My children are desolate Because the enemy prevailed.”Zion spreads out her hands, But no one comforts her; The Lord has commanded concerning Jacob That those around him become his adversaries; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

For thus says the Lord GOD:“ How much more it shall be when I send My four severe judgments on Jerusalem— the sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence— to cut off man and beast from it?

The firstborn of the poor will feed, And the needy will lie down in safety; I will kill your roots with famine, And it will slay your remnant.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place— Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment together to come and mourn with him, and to comfort him.

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn,

“ Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold and see If there is any sorrow like my sorrow, Which has been brought on me, Which the Lord has inflicted In the day of His fierce anger.

Thus says the Lord of hosts:“ Consider and call for the mourning women, That they may come; And send for skillful wailing women, That they may come.Let them make haste And take up a wailing for us, That our eyes may run with tears, And our eyelids gush with water.For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion:‘ How we are plundered! We are greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because we have been cast out of our dwellings.’”Yet hear the word of the Lord, O women, And let your ear receive the word of His mouth; Teach your daughters wailing, And everyone her neighbor a lamentation.For death has come through our windows, Has entered our palaces, To kill off the children— no longer to be outside! And the young men— no longer on the streets!

Then I returned and considered all the oppression that is done under the sun: And look! The tears of the oppressed, But they have no comforter— On the side of their oppressors there is power, But they have no comforter.

Therefore I said,“ Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; Do not labor to comfort me Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.”

Therefore we have been comforted in your comfort. And we rejoiced exceedingly more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace,comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.

Nevertheless God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,and not only by his coming, but also by the consolation with which he was comforted in you, when he told us of your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.

Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before, came to him and ate food with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversity that the Lord had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold.