²⁰ They took pride in their beautiful jewelry
    and used it to make^(A) their detestable idols.
They made it into vile images;^(B)
    therefore I will make it a thing unclean for them.^(C)
21 I will give their wealth as plunder^(D) to foreigners
    and as loot to the wicked of the earth,
    who will defile it.^(E)
22 I will turn my face^(F) away from the people,
    and robbers will desecrate the place I treasure.
They will enter it
    and will defile it.^(G)

⁴ Like an enemy he has strung his bow;^(A)
    his right hand is ready.
Like a foe he has slain
    all who were pleasing to the eye;^(B)
he has poured out his wrath^(C) like fire^(D)
    on the tent^(E) of Daughter Zion.

⁵ The Lord is like an enemy;^(F)
    he has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces
    and destroyed her strongholds.^(G)
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation^(H)
    for Daughter Judah.^(I)

⁶ He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
    he has destroyed^(J) his place of meeting.^(K)
The Lord has made Zion forget
    her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;^(L)
in his fierce anger he has spurned
    both king and priest.^(M)

⁷ The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his sanctuary.^(N)
He has given the walls of her palaces^(O)
    into the hands of the enemy;
they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of an appointed festival.^(P)