Lamentations 2:8-10

Tree of Life Version

⁸ Adonai resolved to destroy
    the wall of the daughter of Zion.
He stretched out a measuring line.
    He did not withdraw His hand from destroying.
He caused rampart and wall to lament—
    together they languished away.
⁹ Her gates sank into the ground.
    Her bars He destroyed and shattered.
Her king and princes are among nations.
    There is no more Torah.
Also her prophets find
    no vision from Adonai.
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.