¹⁸ for Mount Zion,^(A) which lies desolate,^(B)
    with jackals prowling over it.

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)

¹¹ “I will make Jerusalem a heap^(A) of ruins,
    a haunt of jackals;^(B)
and I will lay waste the towns of Judah^(C)
    so no one can live there.”^(D)

⁸ The Lord determined to tear down
    the wall around Daughter Zion.^(A)
He stretched out a measuring line^(B)
    and did not withhold his hand from destroying.
He made ramparts^(C) and walls lament;
    together they wasted away.^(D)

⁹ Her gates^(E) have sunk into the ground;
    their bars^(F) he has broken and destroyed.
Her king and her princes are exiled^(G) among the nations,
    the law^(H) is no more,
and her prophets^(I) no longer find
    visions^(J) from the Lord.