¹² The Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    called you on that day^(A)
to weep^(B) and to wail,
    to tear out your hair^(C) and put on sackcloth.^(D)

¹⁰ I will turn your religious festivals^(A) into mourning
    and all your singing into weeping.^(B)
I will make all of you wear sackcloth^(C)
    and shave^(D) your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son^(E)
    and the end of it like a bitter day.^(F)

¹⁶ The Lord says,
    “The women of Zion^(A) are haughty,
walking along with outstretched necks,^(B)
    flirting with their eyes,
strutting along with swaying hips,
    with ornaments jingling on their ankles.
¹⁷ Therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion;
    the Lord will make their scalps bald.^(C)”

²⁴ Instead of fragrance^(M) there will be a stench;^(N)
    instead of a sash,^(O) a rope;
instead of well-dressed hair, baldness;^(P)
    instead of fine clothing, sackcloth;^(Q)
    instead of beauty,^(R) branding.^(S)
25 Your men will fall by the sword,^(T)
    your warriors in battle.^(U)
26 The gates^(V) of Zion will lament and mourn;^(W)
    destitute,^(X) she will sit on the ground.^(Y)

⁵ Those who once ate delicacies
    are destitute in the streets.
Those brought up in royal purple^(A)
    now lie on ash heaps.^(B)

⁶ The punishment of my people
    is greater than that of Sodom,^(C)
which was overthrown in a moment
    without a hand turned to help her.

⁷ Their princes were brighter than snow
    and whiter than milk,
their bodies more ruddy than rubies,
    their appearance like lapis lazuli.

⁸ But now they are blacker^(D) than soot;
    they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;^(E)
    it has become as dry as a stick.

²⁶ Put on sackcloth,^(A) my people,
    and roll in ashes;^(B)
mourn with bitter wailing^(C)
    as for an only son,^(D)
for suddenly the destroyer^(E)
    will come upon us.