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)

¹⁰ The enemy laid hands
    on all her treasures;^(A)
she saw pagan nations
    enter her sanctuary^(B)—
those you had forbidden^(C)
    to enter your assembly.

“‘Zion^(B) will be plowed like a field,
    Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,^(C)
    the temple hill^(D) a mound overgrown with thickets.’^[a](E)

⁴ Your foes roared^(K) in the place where you met with us;
    they set up their standards^(L) as signs.

⁷¹ from tending the sheep^(A) he brought him
    to be the shepherd^(B) of his people Jacob,
    of Israel his inheritance.

⁷ They burned your sanctuary to the ground;
    they defiled^(A) the dwelling place^(B) of your Name.^(C)
8 They said in their hearts, “We will crush^(D) them completely!”
    They burned^(E) every place where God was worshiped in the land.