1:17a Zion stretches out her hands,

Zion is like a beggar who stretches out her hands for help.
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The people of ⌊the holy city⌋ Jerusalem plead for help

1:17b but there is no one to comfort her.

But nobody helped her.
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but no one comforts her. (TLB)

1:17c The LORD has decreed against Jacob

Yahweh gave a command about ⌊the descendants of⌋ Jacob
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Yahweh said about ⌊the people of⌋ Israel:

1:17d that his neighbors become his foes.

so their neighbors would become their enemies.
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“Let their neighbors be their enemies! (New Living Translation (2004))

1:17e Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

Jerusalem is ritually unclean ⌊like a woman during her menstrual bleeding⌋ .
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Let them be thrown away like a dirty cloth!”

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