Is this your exultant city whose origin is from days of old, whose feet carried her to settle far away?
I have seen slaves on horseback and princes walking on the ground like slaves.
city full of shouting, tumultuous city, panic-stricken town? Your slain are not slain by the sword, nor are they dead in battle.
for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses in the jubilant city.
then the boundary turns to Ramah, reaching to the fortified city of Tyre; then the boundary turns to Hosah, and it ends at the sea; Mahaleb, Achzib,