² The lovely and delicately bred I will destroy,
    ^(A)the daughter of Zion.^[a]

³¹ For I heard ^(A)a cry as of a woman in labor,
    anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath,
    ^(B)stretching out her hands,
“Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”

⁸ And ^(A)the daughter of Zion is left
    like a ^(B)booth in a vineyard,
like a lodge in a cucumber field,
    like a besieged city.

2 How the Lord in his anger
    has set the daughter of Zion ^(A)under a cloud!
^(B)He has cast down from heaven to earth
    the splendor of Israel;
he has not remembered ^(C)his footstool
    in the day of his anger.