Lamentations 2:10-12

Tree of Life Version

¹⁰ The elders of the daughter of Zion
    sit upon the ground in silence.
They threw dust on their heads
    and girded themselves with sackcloth.
The maidens of Jerusalem
    have bowed their heads to the ground.
¹¹ My eyes are filled with tears.
    My stomach is in torment.
My heart^[a] is poured out on the ground
    over the destruction of the daughter of my people—
as young children and infants
    languish in the city squares.
¹² They say to their mothers,
    “Where is grain and wine?”
as they faint like a wounded soldier
    in the city squares,
as their lives ebb away
    in their mothers’ bosom.