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Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?

This rhetorical question is an accusation aganist the people who walk past Jerusalem and do not care about its well-being. This question can be written as a statement. Alternate translation: "All you who pass by should care more for my affliction!" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion)

Is it nothing to you

Here Jerusalem continues to speak, but now to people who pass by instead of to Yahweh. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-personification)

Look and see

These words share similar meanings. Together they invite the reader to understand by seeing that no one has suffered so much. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-doublet)

the sorrow that is being inflicted on me

This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "the sorrow that Yahweh is inflicting upon me" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive)

on the day of his fierce anger

Here the word "day" is used as an idiom. Alternate translation: "when he was fiercely angry" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom)