⁴ How long is the ^(A)land to mourn
And the ^(B)plants of every field to dry up?
Because of the ^(C)evil of those who inhabit it,
^(D)Animals and birds have been swept away,
Because men have said, “He will not see our latter ^(E)ending.”

² “Judah mourns,
And ^(A)her gates languish;
They sit on the ground ^(B)in mourning,
And the ^(C)outcry of Jerusalem has gone up.

³ Therefore the land ^(A)mourns,
And everyone who inhabits it languishes
Along with the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky,
And also the fish of the sea ^[a]disappear.