4 The roads to Zion mourn,empty of pilgrims to her feasts.All her gateways are desolate,her priests groan,Her young women grieve;her lot is bitter.
5 Her foes have come out on top,her enemies are secure;Because the Lord has afflicted herfor her many rebellions.Her children have gone away,captive before the foe.
6 From daughter Zion has goneall her glory:Her princes have become like ramsthat find no pasture.They have gone off exhaustedbefore their pursuers.
7 Jerusalem remembersin days of wretched homelessness,All the precious things she once hadin days gone by.But when her people fell into the hands of the foe,and she had no help,Her foes looked on and laughedat her collapse.
8 Jerusalem has sinned grievously,therefore she has become a mockery;Those who honored her now demean her,for they saw her nakedness;She herself groans out loud,and turns away.
9 Her uncleanness is on her skirt;she has no thought of her future.Her downfall is astonishing,with no one to comfort her.“Look, O Lord, at my misery;how the enemy triumphs!”
10 The foe stretched out his handsto all her precious things;She has seen the nationsenter her sanctuary,Those you forbade to comeinto your assembly.