17 Finally I said to them: “You can see what a terrible situation we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, so that this disgrace will not continue.”

 4 The roads to Zion are mourning, because no one is coming to the festival.+

All her gates are desolate;+ her priests are sighing.

Her virgins* are grieving, and she is in bitter anguish.