“How has she been broken down! They shall wail! How has Mo’aḇ
How dim the gold has become, The fine gold changed! The stones of the set-apart place Are scattered at the head of every street.
How יהוה in His displeasure Has covered the daughter of Tsiyon with a cloud! He has cast down from the heavens to the earth The comeliness of Yisra’ĕ
How alone she sits, The city once great with people! Like a widow she has become, One great among the nations! A princess among provinces has become a slave!
“Lament for him, all you who are around him. And all you who know his name, say, ‘How the strong sceptre has been broken, the staff of splendour!’
“And Mo’aḇ