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

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.

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

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

Daughter Zion is left isolated, like a hut in a vineyard, or a shelter in a cucumber field; she is a besieged city.

In fact, I hear a cry like that of a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like that of a woman giving birth to her first baby. It is the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, reaching out for help, saying,“ I am done in! My life is ebbing away before these murderers!”

Alas! The Lord has covered Daughter Zion with his anger. He has thrown down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he did not protect his temple when he displayed his anger.ב( Bet)

With what can I equate you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter Jerusalem? To what can I liken you so that I might comfort you, O Virgin Daughter Zion? Your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you?נ( Nun)

The LORD says,“ The women of Zion are proud. They walk with their heads high and flirt with their eyes. They skip along and the jewelry on their ankles jingles.So the sovereign master will afflict the foreheads of Zion’s women with skin diseases, the LORD will make the front of their heads bald.”