The beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, I will destroy.

那秀美娇嫩的锡安女子，我必剪除。

那秀美娇嫩的锡安，我必剪除。

那秀美娇嫩的锡安，我必剪除。

我要毁灭美丽娇弱的锡安城。

美丽高贵的锡安居民（“居民”原文作“女子”），我必除灭你们。

那秀美嬌嫩的錫安女子，我必剪除。

那秀美嬌嫩的錫安，我必剪除。

那秀美嬌嫩的錫安，我必剪除。

我要毀滅美麗嬌弱的錫安城。

美麗高貴的錫安居民（“居民”原文作“女子”），我必除滅你們。

錫安小姐是不是像青綠的草場，

美麗嬌嬈之錫安女、我必殄滅之、

郇邑雖美、甚有容儀、我命翦滅。

郇邑邑原文作女若美麗纖弱之女、我命殲滅、

I will destroy Daughter Zion, so beautiful and delicate.

I will destroy the city of Zion, even though it is very beautiful.

The lovely and delicately bred I will destroy, the daughter of Zion.

O Jerusalem, you are my beautiful and delicate daughter— but I will destroy you!

Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy Daughter Zion.

I have likened the daughter of Zion To a lovely and delicate woman.

The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.

Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy Daughter Zion.

I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate[ woman].

I will destroy Daughter Zion, who is as delicate and defenseless as a young maiden.

I will cut off the beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion.

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, Like a watchman’s hut in a cucumber field, like a city under watch.

For I heard a voice cry as of a woman in labor, The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child. The voice of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, Stretching out her hands, saying,“ Ah, woe to me, for I faint before murderers.”

How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger! He has hurled The glory of Israel from heaven to earth, And has not remembered His footstool In the day of His anger.

How shall I admonish you? What shall I compare to you, Daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I liken to you as I comfort you, Virgin daughter of Zion? For your collapse is as vast as the sea; Who can heal you?

Moreover, the Lord said,“ Because the daughters of Zion are haughty And walk with heads held high and seductive eyes, And go along with mincing steps And jingle the anklets on their feet,The Lord will afflict the scalp of the daughters of Zion with scabs, And the Lord will make their foreheads bare.”