Lamentations 2:8-10

New International Reader's Version

⁸ The Lord decided to tear down
    the walls around the city of Zion.
He measured out what he wanted to destroy.
    Then he destroyed Jerusalem by his power.
He made even her towers and walls sing songs of sadness.
    All of them fell down.

⁹ Her gates sank down into the ground.
    He broke the metal bars that locked her gates, and he destroyed them.
Her king and princes were taken away to other nations.
    There is no law anymore.
Jerusalem’s prophets no longer receive
    visions from the Lord.

¹⁰ The elders of the city of Zion
    sit silently on the ground.
They have sprinkled dust on their heads.
    They’ve put on the clothes of sadness.
The young women of Jerusalem
    have bowed their heads toward the ground.