How the city sits solitary, that was full of people. She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations. She who was a princess among the provinces has become a forced laborer.

How the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger. He has cast down from heaven to the earth the splendor of Israel, and hasn't remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

How the gold has become dim. How the most pure gold has changed. The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How they are regarded as clay jars, the work of the hands of the potter.