4. Zion’s roads are in mourning; no one comes to the festivals.All her gates are deserted. Her priests are groaning,her young women grieving. She is bitter.
5. Her adversaries have become rulers; her enemies relax.Certainly the Lord caused her grief because of her many wrong acts.Her children have gone away, captive before the enemy.
6. Daughter Zion lost all her glory.Her officials are like deer that can’t find pasture.They have gone away, frail, before the hunter.
7. While suffering and homeless, Jerusalem remembers all her treasures from days long past.When her people fell by the enemy’s hand, there was no one to help her.Enemies saw her, laughed at her defeat.
8. Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore, she’s become a joke.All who honored her now detest her, for they’ve seen her naked.Even she groans and turns away.