| 1 | Outside the gates of Jerusalem. | |
| 2 | Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. | |
| 3 | The gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground. | |
| 4 | Then the elders and all those at the gate said, "We are witnesses. | |
| 5 | I went back to the gate of Shiloh and there, I sawEli, dead. |