Lamentations 2:9-11

Tree of Life Version

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.
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.