^8 (A)The Lord determined to lay in ruins
    ^(B)the wall of the daughter of Zion;
^(C)he stretched out the measuring line;
    he did not restrain his hand from destroying;
^(D)he caused rampart and wall to lament;
    ^(E)they languished together.

⁹ Her gates have sunk into the ground;
    ^(A)he has ruined ^(B)and broken her bars;
^(C)her king and princes are among the nations;
    the law is no more,
and ^(D)her prophets find
    no vision from the Lord.

^16 (A)All your enemies
    rail against you;
they hiss, they gnash their teeth,
    they cry: “We ^(B)have swallowed her!
Ah, this is the day we longed for;
    now we have it; ^(C)we see it!”