י (Yod) The elders of Daughter Zion sit ¹  on the ground in silence. ²  They have thrown dirt on their heads; They have dressed in sackcloth. ³  Jerusalem’s young women ⁴  stare down at the ground. ⁵ 

Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!

But he ¹  left behind some of the poor of the land and gave them fields and vineyards.

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, ¹  and buried ²  my horn ³  in the dust;

He becomes the victim of his own destructive plans ¹  and the violence he intended for others falls on his own head. ² 

You have brought to an end his splendor, ¹  and have knocked ²  his throne to the ground.

All the nations surrounded me. ¹  Indeed, in the name of the Lord ²  I pushed them away. ³ 

They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away.

ד (Dalet) I collapse in the dirt. ¹  Revive me with your word! ² 

and your poverty will come like a robber, ¹  and your need like an armed man. ² 

and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.” ¹ 

But he ¹  left behind some of the poor ²  and gave them fields and vineyards.

By the sweat of your brow ¹  you will eat food until you return to the ground, ²  for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.” ³ 

Naaman said, “If not, then please give your servant a load of dirt, enough for a pair of mules to carry, ¹  for your servant will never again offer a burnt offering or sacrifice to a god other than the Lord. ² 

I sent him ¹  against a godless ²  nation, I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, ³  to take plunder and to carry away loot, to trample them down ⁴  like dirt in the streets.

“Fall down! Sit in the dirt, O virgin ¹  daughter Babylon! Sit on the ground, not on a throne, O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, ²  you will no longer be called delicate and pampered.

A wolf and a lamb will graze together; ¹  a lion, like an ox, will eat straw, ²  and a snake’s food will be dirt. ³  They will no longer injure or destroy on my entire royal mountain,” ⁴  says the Lord.

They trample ¹  on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; ²  they push the destitute away. ³  A man and his father go to the same girl; ⁴  in this way they show disrespect ⁵  for my moral purity. ⁶ 

The Lord God formed ¹  the man from the soil of the ground ²  and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, ³  and the man became a living being. ⁴ 

So the Lord God expelled him ¹  from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.