¹⁰ The elders of the daughter of Zion
    ^(A)sit on the ground ^(B)in silence;
^(C)they have thrown dust on their heads
    and ^(D)put on sackcloth;
the young women of Jerusalem
    have bowed their heads to the ground.

^11 (E)My eyes are spent with weeping;
    ^(F)my stomach churns;
^(G)my bile is poured out to the ground
    ^(H)because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
^(I)because infants and babies ^(J)faint
    in the streets of the city.

¹² They cry to their mothers,
    ^(K)“Where is bread and wine?”
^(L)as they faint like a wounded man
    in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
    on their mothers' bosom.