¹⁰ Your sacred cities^(A) have become a wasteland;
    even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.^(B)

¹¹ Our holy and glorious temple,^(A) where our ancestors praised you,
    has been burned with fire,
    and all that we treasured^(B) lies in ruins.

⁶ He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
    he has destroyed^(A) his place of meeting.^(B)
The Lord has made Zion forget
    her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;^(C)
in his fierce anger he has spurned
    both king and priest.^(D)

⁷ The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his sanctuary.^(E)
He has given the walls of her palaces^(F)
    into the hands of the enemy;
they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of an appointed festival.^(G)

⁸ The Lord determined to tear down
    the wall around Daughter Zion.^(H)
He stretched out a measuring line^(I)
    and did not withhold his hand from destroying.
He made ramparts^(J) and walls lament;
    together they wasted away.^(K)

⁹ Her gates^(L) have sunk into the ground;
    their bars^(M) he has broken and destroyed.
Her king and her princes are exiled^(N) among the nations,
    the law^(O) is no more,
and her prophets^(P) no longer find
    visions^(Q) from the Lord.

¹² Therefore because of you,
    Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,^(A)
    the temple^(B) hill a mound overgrown with thickets.^(C)