1. How the city sits solitary,that was full of people!She has become as a widow,who was great amongst the nations!She who was a princess amongst the provinceshas become a slave!
2. She weeps bitterly in the night.Her tears are on her cheeks.Amongst all her loversshe has no one to comfort her.All her friends have dealt treacherously with her.They have become her enemies.
3. Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction,and because of great servitude.She dwells amongst the nations.She finds no rest.All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
4. The roads to Zion mourn,because no one comes to the solemn assembly.All her gates are desolate.Her priests sigh.Her virgins are afflicted,and she herself is in bitterness.
5. Her adversaries have become the head.Her enemies prosper;for the Lord has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions.Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.
6. All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion.Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture.They have gone without strength before the pursuer.
7. Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseriesall her pleasant things that were from the days of old;when her people fell into the hand of the adversary,and no one helped her.The adversaries saw her.They mocked at her desolations.