Your land is desolate,
your cities burned down;(A)
foreigners devour your fields
right in front of you—
a desolation, like a place demolished by foreigners.
Daughter Zion(B) is abandoned
like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a shack in a cucumber field,
like a besieged city.
If the Lord of Armies(C)
had not left us a few survivors,(D)
we would be like Sodom,
we would resemble Gomorrah.(E)

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