⁸ Jerusalem [^LDaughter Zion; ^Cthe location of the Temple] is left alone
    like an ·empty shelter [or watchman’s hut] in a vineyard,
like a ·hut [shelter] left in a field of ·melons [or cucumbers],
    like a city ·surrounded by enemies [besieged].
⁹ If the Lord ·All-Powerful [Almighty; of Heaven’s Armies; ^Tof hosts]
    had not ·allowed a few of our people to live [left us a few survivors],
we would have been like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah [^Ccompletely destroyed; Gen. 19].