(A)Your country lies desolate;
    your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
    foreigners devour your land;
    it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
And (B)the daughter of Zion is left
    like a (C)booth in a vineyard,
like a lodge in a cucumber field,
    like a besieged city.

(D)If the Lord of hosts
    had not left us (E)a few survivors,
we should have been like (F)Sodom,
    and become like (G)Gomorrah.

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