Lamentations 2:8-10

World English Bible

⁸ Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion.
    He has stretched out the line.
    He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying;
He has made the rampart and wall lament.
    They languish 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 where the law is not.
    Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.

¹⁰ The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground.
    They keep silence.
They have cast up dust on their heads.
    They have clothed themselves with sackcloth.
    The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.