8. The Lord has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion.He has stretched out the line.He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying;He has made the rampart and wall lament.They languish together.
9. Her gates have sunk into the ground.He has destroyed and broken her bars.Her king and her princes are amongst the nations where the law is not.Yes, her prophets find no vision from the Lord.
10. The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground.They keep silence.They have cast up dust on their heads.They have clothed themselves with sackcloth.The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
11. My eyes fail with tears.My heart is troubled.My liver is poured on the earth,because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
12. They ask their mothers,“Where is grain and wine?”when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city,when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.