4. The roads to Zion mournBecause no one comes to the set feasts.All her gates are desolate;Her priests sigh,Her virgins are afflicted,And she is in bitterness.
5. Her adversaries have become the master,Her enemies prosper;For the Lord has afflicted herBecause of the multitude of her transgressions.Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.
6. And from the daughter of ZionAll her splendor has departed.Her princes have become like deerThat find no pasture,That flee without strengthBefore the pursuer.
7. In the days of her affliction and roaming,Jerusalem remembers all her pleasant thingsThat she had in the days of old.When her people fell into the hand of the enemy,With no one to help her,The adversaries saw herAnd mocked at her downfall.
8. Jerusalem has sinned gravely,Therefore she has become vile.All who honored her despise herBecause they have seen her nakedness;Yes, she sighs and turns away.
9. 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!”