⁴ The roads to Zion mourn,
    because no one comes to the solemn assembly.
All her gates are desolate.
    Her priests sigh.
Her virgins are afflicted,
    and she herself is in bitterness.

⁵ Her adversaries have become the head.
    Her enemies prosper;
for Yahweh^[a] has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions.
    Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.

⁶ All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion.
    Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture.
    They have gone without strength before the pursuer.