¹⁴ The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.

³⁴ And I have caused to cease from cities of Judah, And from streets of Jerusalem, The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, Voice of bridegroom, and voice of bride, For the land doth become a desolation!

²² and voice of harpers, and musicians, and pipers, and trumpeters, may not be heard at all in thee any more; and any artizan of any art may not be found at all in thee any more; and noise of a millstone may not be heard at all in thee any more;

¹³ And I have caused the noise of thy songs to cease, And the voice of thy harps is heard no more.

¹⁰ Sit on the earth -- keep silent do the elders of the daughter of Zion, They have caused dust to go up on their head, They have girded on sackcloth, Put down to the earth their head have the virgins of Jerusalem.

¹⁹ I called for my lovers, they -- they have deceived me, My priests and my elders in the city have expired; When they have sought food for themselves, Then they give back their soul.

⁴ The ways of Zion are mourning, Without any coming at the appointed time, All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted -- and she hath bitterness.

¹⁰ And I have destroyed from them the voice of rejoicing, and the voice of joy, voice of bridegroom and voice of bride, noise of millstones, and the light of lamps.

⁹ For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing to cease from this place, Before your eyes, and in your days, The voice of joy, and the voice of rejoicing, The voice of bridegroom and voice of bride.

⁷ Mourned hath the new wine, languished the vine, Sighed have all the joyful of heart.

⁸ Ceased hath the joy of tabrets, Ceased hath the noise of exulting ones, Ceased hath the joy of a harp.

⁹ With a song they drink not wine, Bitter is strong drink to those drinking it.

¹⁰ It was broken down -- a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.

¹¹ A cry over the wine `is' in out-places, Darkened hath been all joy, Removed hath been the joy of the land.

² Hero and man of war, judge and prophet, And diviner and elder,

³ Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, And counsellor, and the wise of artificers, And the intelligent of charmers.

³¹ And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.

¹ And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.

⁷ When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.

⁸ Seen me have youths, and they, been hidden, And the aged have risen -- they stood up.

⁹ Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth.

¹⁰ The voice of leaders hath been hidden, And their tongue to the palate hath cleaved.

¹¹ For the ear heard, and declareth me happy, And the eye hath seen, and testifieth `to' me.

¹² For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.

¹³ The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.

¹⁴ Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice.

¹⁵ Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame `am' I.

¹⁶ A father I `am' to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.

¹⁷ And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.

¹⁸ `Judges and authorities thou dost make to thee within all thy gates which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, for thy tribes; and they have judged the people -- a righteous judgment.