¹⁴ The elders are gone from the city gate;
    the young men have stopped their music.^(A)

⁷ The new wine dries up^(A) and the vine withers;^(B)
    all the merrymakers groan.^(C)
8 The joyful timbrels^(D) are stilled,
    the noise^(E) of the revelers^(F) has stopped,
    the joyful harp^(G) is silent.^(H)
9 No longer do they drink wine^(I) with a song;
    the beer is bitter^(J) to its drinkers.
¹⁰ The ruined city^(K) lies desolate;^(L)
    the entrance to every house is barred.
¹¹ In the streets they cry out^(M) for wine;^(N)
    all joy turns to gloom,^(O)
    all joyful sounds are banished from the earth.

²² The music of harpists and musicians, pipers and trumpeters,
    will never be heard in you again.^(A)
No worker of any trade
    will ever be found in you again.
The sound of a millstone
    will never be heard in you again.^(B)

¹⁰ The elders of Daughter Zion
    sit on the ground in silence;^(A)
they have sprinkled dust^(B) on their heads^(C)
    and put on sackcloth.^(D)
The young women of Jerusalem
    have bowed their heads to the ground.^(E)

¹⁹ “I called to my allies^(A)
    but they betrayed me.
My priests and my elders
    perished^(B) in the city
while they searched for food
    to keep themselves alive.

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)