Lamentations 2:10-12

Modern English Version

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.

¹² They say to their mothers,
    “Where is grain and wine?”
when they faint like a wounded man
    in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
    on their mothers’ bosom.