The people of Israel continue speaking to Yahweh.

## Your holy cities have become a wilderness ##

This emphasizes that the cities are destroyed and no one lives there. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

## has been destroyed by fire ##

AT: "the enemy destroyed it with fire" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])

## How can you still hold back, Yahweh? How can you remain silent and continue to humiliate us? ##

They use questions to express their frustration because God has not yet come to help them. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])