Let {unforeseen ruin} come on him, and his net that he hid, let it catch him. Let him fall into it in ruin.

Lift your steps to the perpetual ruins, [to] all [that the] enemy has ruined in the sanctuary.

The enemies are destroyed [in] ruins forever, and you have uprooted [their] cities; their very memory has perished.

The ropes of death encircled me, and streams of ruin overwhelmed me.

But as for them [who] seek my life for ruin, they will go into the depths of the earth.

Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.

For indeed, [those] distancing themselves from you will be ruined. You destroy each who abandons you for harlotry.

O God, [the] nations have entered your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have reduced Jerusalem to ruins.

You have broken down all his walls; you have made his fortifications a ruin.

I am like an owl of [the] wilderness; I am like a little owl of [the] ruins.

and let his children wander aimlessly and beg, and let them plead from their ruins.