Lamentations 2:9-11

Modern English Version

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.

¹¹ My eyes fail with tears,
    my spirit is greatly troubled;
my bile is poured on the ground
    because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
because the children and infants faint
    in the streets of the city.