⁶ “In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,^(A)
    in the days of Jael,^(B) the highways^(C) were abandoned;
    travelers took to winding paths.^(D)

⁸ The highways are deserted,
    no travelers^(A) are on the roads.^(B)
The treaty is broken,^(C)
    its witnesses^[a] are despised,
    no one is respected.

⁴ The roads to Zion mourn,^(A)
    for no one comes to her appointed festivals.
All her gateways are desolate,^(B)
    her priests groan,
her young women grieve,
    and she is in bitter anguish.^(C)

¹² Therefore because of you,
    Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,^(A)
    the temple^(B) hill a mound overgrown with thickets.^(C)

¹⁸ People stalked us at every step,
    so we could not walk in our streets.
Our end was near, our days were numbered,
    for our end had come.^(A)

⁵ But those who turn^(A) to crooked ways^(B)
    the Lord will banish^(C) with the evildoers.

Peace be on Israel.^(D)