1. How doth the city sit solitary, {that was} full of people! {how} is she become as a widow! she {that was} great among the nations, {and} princess among the provinces, {how} is she become tributary! →

1. How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, {and} cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! / 2. →

1. I {am} the man {that} hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. / 2. He hath led me, and brought {me into} darkness, but not {into} light. / 3. Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand {against me} all the day. →

1. How is the gold become dim! {how} is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. / 2. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! →

1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. / 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. / 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers {are} as widows. →