⁴ The earth dries up^(A) and withers,^(B)
    the world languishes and withers,
    the heavens^(C) languish with the earth.^(D)
5 The earth is defiled^(E) by its people;
    they have disobeyed^(F) the laws,
violated the statutes
    and broken the everlasting covenant.^(G)
6 Therefore a curse^(H) consumes the earth;
    its people must bear their guilt.
Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up,^(I)
    and very few are left.

⁶ He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
    he has destroyed^(A) his place of meeting.^(B)
The Lord has made Zion forget
    her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;^(C)
in his fierce anger he has spurned
    both king and priest.^(D)

⁷ The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his sanctuary.^(E)
He has given the walls of her palaces^(F)
    into the hands of the enemy;
they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of an appointed festival.^(G)