⁴ The roads to Zion mourn,^(A)
    for no one comes to her appointed festivals.
All her gateways are desolate,^(B)
    her priests groan,
her young women grieve,
    and she is in bitter anguish.^(C)

¹⁵ “The Lord has rejected
    all the warriors in my midst;^(A)
he has summoned an army^(B) against me
    to^[a] crush my young men.^(C)
In his winepress^(D) the Lord has trampled^(E)
    Virgin Daughter^(F) Judah.

¹⁸ “The Lord is righteous,^(A)
    yet I rebelled^(B) against his command.
Listen, all you peoples;
    look on my suffering.^(C)
My young men and young women
    have gone into exile.^(D)