(A)Your country lies desolate;
    your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
    foreigners devour your land;
    it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
And (B)the daughter of Zion is left
    like a (C)booth in a vineyard,
like a lodge in a cucumber field,
    like a besieged city.

(D)If the Lord of hosts
    had not left us (E)a few survivors,
we should have been like (F)Sodom,
    and become like (G)Gomorrah.

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Your country is desolate,(A)
    your cities burned with fire;(B)
your fields are being stripped by foreigners(C)
    right before you,
    laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.(D)
Daughter Zion(E) is left(F)
    like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a hut(G) in a cucumber field,
    like a city under siege.
Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us some survivors,(H)
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.(I)

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