Lamentations 2:8-10

Modern English Version

⁸ The Lord has purposed to destroy
    the wall of the daughter of Zion.
He has stretched out a line;
    He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying;
therefore He caused the rampart and the wall to lament;
    they languished together.

⁹ Her gates have sunk into the ground;
    He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations;
    the Law is no more,
and her prophets find
    no vision from the Lord.

¹⁰ The elders of the daughter of Zion
    sit on the ground in silence;
they throw dust on their heads
    and gird themselves with sackcloth.
The virgins of Jerusalem
    bow their heads to the ground.