1Yo, the gold's looking dull! How did the finest gold turn into trash? The holy stones are just spilled all over the streets.

2The lit kids of Zion, shining like gold, now they’re seen as basic clay pots, just a craftsman's play.

3Even the sea beasts are feeding their babies, but my peeps are acting cold, like those ostriches out in the wild.

4The little ones are so thirsty, their tongues stick to the roof of their mouths; the kids are asking for bread, but no one's got them.

5Those who used to eat like kings are now chilling in the streets; the ones raised in luxury are now in the dumps.

6The punishment for my peeps' sins is way worse than Sodom’s, which got wrecked in a flash, with no one to stop it.

7Her Nazarites were cleaner than snow, whiter than milk, and more vibrant than rubies, shining like sapphires.

8Their faces are darker than coal; you can’t even recognize them in the streets. Their skin's stuck to their bones, looking like twigs.

9Those who get taken out by the sword are better off than those who starve; at least the latter are just fading away, missing the crops.

10The sad moms cooked their own kids; they were their dinner during the downfall of my people.

11The Lord's done with His rage; He unleashed His fierce anger and lit a fire in Zion that burned down its foundations.

12The kings and everyone on Earth wouldn’t believe the enemy could crash through Jerusalem’s gates.

13It's all because of the prophets' sins and the priests' wrongs, spilling the just's blood right in the middle of it all.

14They’ve been wandering blind in the streets, got blood on their hands, so nobody wants to touch their clothes.

15They told them to bounce; it's dirty here; leave, leave, don’t touch: when they ran away, they said to the outsiders, “We can't chill here anymore.”

16The Lord's anger split them up; He ain't checking for them anymore: they didn’t show love to the priests or the elders.

17As for us, our eyes are still searching for help that ain’t coming: we've been watching for a nation that can’t save us.

18They’re stalking our moves, so we can't even walk the streets: our time’s almost up, days are done; we’re at the end.

19Our chasers are quicker than the eagles in the sky: they hunted us on the hills and set traps in the wild.

20The breath of our lives, the Lord’s chosen one, got caught in their traps, the one we thought would keep us safe among the outsiders.

21Get hyped and be happy, O daughter of Edom, living in Uz; the cup's coming for you too: you’ll be wasted and exposed.

22Your punishment is done, O daughter of Zion; you won’t be taken away anymore: He’ll check your wrongs, O daughter of Edom; your sins are coming to light.

1How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

2The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

3Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

4The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

6For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

7Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:

8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

9They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

10The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

11The Lord hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

12The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

13For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

14They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

15They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.

16The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.

17As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

18They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

19Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

22The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.