1How dulled is the gold, how tarnished the fine gold! The stones of the sanctuary lie strewn at every street corner.
2See Zion's precious sons, once worth their weight in finest gold, now counted as clay jars, the work of any potter's hand.
3Even whales uncover the teat and suckle their young; but the daughters of my people are heartless as the ostriches of the desert.
4With thirst the sucking infant's tongue cleaves to the roof of its mouth; young children beg for bread, but no one offers them a crumb.
5Those who once fed delicately are desolate in the streets; those brought up in purple garments now grovel on refuse heaps.
6The penalty inflicted on my people is worse than the punishment of Sodom, which suffered overthrow in a moment, and no hands were wrung.
7Her crowned princes were once purer than snow, whiter than milk; they were ruddier than branching coral; their limbs were lapis lazuli.
8But their faces turned blacker than soot, and no one knew them in the streets; the skin was shrivelled tight over their bones, dry as touchwood.
9Those who died by the sword were more fortunate than those who died of hunger, who wasted away, deprived of the produce of the field.
10With their own hands tender-hearted women boiled their own children; their children became their food on the day of my people's wounding.
11The LORD glutted his rage and poured forth his fierce anger; he kindled a fire in Zion that burnt to the very foundations.
12No one, neither the kings of the earth nor any other inhabitant of the world, believed that any adversary, any foe could penetrate within the gates of Jerusalem.
13It happened for the sins of her prophets, for the crimes of her priests, who had shed within her walls the blood of the righteous.
14They wandered blindly in the streets; they are so stained with blood that no one would touch even their garments.
15“Go away! Unclean!” people cried to them. “Away! Do not come near!” They hastened away, wandering among the nations, unable to find any resting-place.
16The LORD himself scattered them, he thought of them no more; he showed no favour to priests, no pity for elders.
17Still we strain our eyes, looking in vain for help. We have watched and watched for a nation that proved powerless to save.
18When we go out, we take to byways to avoid the public streets; our days are all but finished, our end has come.
19Our pursuers have shown themselves swifter than eagles in the heavens; they are hot on our trail over the hills, they waylay us in the wilderness.
20The LORD's anointed, the breath of life to us, was caught in their traps; although we had thought to live among the nations, safe under his protection.
21Rejoice and be glad, daughters of Edom, dwellers in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you in your turn, and when drunk you will expose your nakedness.
22The punishment for your sin, daughter of Zion, is now complete, and never again will you be carried into exile. But you, daughter of Edom, your sin will be punished, and your guilt revealed.
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