¹⁰ Your sacred cities^(A) have become a wasteland;
    even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.^(B)
11 Our holy and glorious temple,^(C) where our ancestors praised you,
    has been burned with fire,
    and all that we treasured^(D) lies in ruins.

⁷ In the days of her affliction and wandering
    Jerusalem remembers all the treasures
    that were hers in days of old.
When her people fell into enemy hands,
    there was no one to help her.^(A)
Her enemies looked at her
    and laughed^(B) at her destruction.

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.