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

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.

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 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.

Beautiful Jerusalem stands abandoned like a watchman’s shelter in a vineyard, like a lean to in a cucumber field after the harvest, like a helpless city under siege.

I hear a cry, like that of a woman in labor, the groans of a woman giving birth to her first child. It is beautiful Jerusalem gasping for breath and crying out,“ Help! I’m being murdered!”

The Lord in his anger has cast a dark shadow over beautiful Jerusalem. The fairest of Israel’s cities lies in the dust, thrown down from the heights of heaven. In his day of great anger, the Lord has shown no mercy even to his Temple.

What can I say about you? Who has ever seen such sorrow? O daughter of Jerusalem, to what can I compare your anguish? O virgin daughter of Zion, how can I comfort you? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you?

The Lord says,“ Beautiful Zion is haughty: craning her elegant neck, flirting with her eyes, walking with dainty steps, tinkling her ankle bracelets.So the Lord will send scabs on her head; the Lord will make beautiful Zion bald.”