Is this really your boisterous city whose origins are in the distant past, and whose feet led her to a distant land to reside?
I have seen slaves on horseback and princes walking on foot like slaves.
The noisy city is full of raucous sounds; the town is filled with revelry. Your slain were not cut down by the sword; they did not die in battle.
Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses in the city filled with revelry.
It then turned toward Ramah as far as the fortified city of Tyre, turned to Hosah, and ended at the sea near Hebel, Aczib,