⁷ for they have devoured^(A) Jacob
    and devastated his homeland.

⁷ Your country is desolate,^(A)
    your cities burned with fire;^(B)
your fields are being stripped by foreigners^(C)
    right before you,
    laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.^(D)

⁸ Daughter Zion^(A) is left^(B)
    like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a hut^(C) in a cucumber field,
    like a city under siege.