⁴ Daleth. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the solemn feast: all her gates are broken down: her priests sigh: her virgins are in affliction, and she is oppressed with bitterness.

⁶ And in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a famine overpowered the city: and there was no food for the people of the land.