⁴ The roads to Zion mourn,
    for none come to ^(A)the festival;
^(B)all her gates are desolate;
    her priests ^(C)groan;
her virgins have been afflicted,^[a]
    and she herself suffers bitterly.

^5 (A)Her foes have become the head;
    her ^(B)enemies prosper,
because ^(C)the Lord has afflicted her
    ^(D)for the multitude of her transgressions;
^(E)her children have gone away,
    captives before the foe.