Lament over the Ruin of the Country

Hear this, O elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors?

Lament like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

A Call to Repentance and Prayer

Put on sackcloth and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, pass the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God! Grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.