^9 (A)If grape gatherers came to you,
    would they not leave ^(B)gleanings?
^(C)If thieves came by night,
    would they not destroy only enough for themselves?

^6 (A)Gleanings will be left in it,
    as when an olive tree is beaten—
two or three berries
    in the top of the highest bough,
four or five
    on the branches of a fruit tree,
declares the Lord God of Israel.

¹⁵ This is the exultant city
    ^(A)that lived securely,
that said in her heart,
    “I am, and there is no one else.”
What a desolation she has become,
    ^(B)a lair for wild beasts!
^(C)Everyone who passes by her
    hisses and ^(D)shakes his fist.

7 Woe is me! For I have become
    ^(A)as when the summer fruit has been gathered,
    as when the grapes have been gleaned:
there is no cluster to eat,
    no ^(B)first-ripe fig that my soul desires.

1 ^(A)How lonely sits the city
    that was full of people!
How like ^(B)a widow has she become,
    she who was great among the nations!
She who was ^(C)a princess among the provinces
    has become ^(D)a slave.

^23 (A)How the hammer of the whole earth
    is cut down and broken!
^(B)How Babylon ^(C)has become
    a horror among the nations!