7
Zain The Lord has cast off his altar; he has abhorred his sanctuary; he has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have shouted in the house of the LORD as in the day of a feast.
8
Cheth The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; he has stretched out the line; he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they were destroyed together.
9
Teth Her gates were thrown to the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars; her king and her princes
are carried off among the Gentiles; there is no law; nor have her prophets found vision from the LORD.
10
Jod The elders of the daughter of Zion sat upon the ground
and are silent: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth; the daughters of Jerusalem hung their heads down to the ground.
11
Caph My eyes fail with tears; my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people because the children and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city.
12
Lamed They said to their mothers, Where
is the wheat and the wine? fainting as the dead in the streets of the city, pouring out their souls into their mothers’ bosom.
13
Mem What witness shall I take to thee? Or unto whom shall I liken thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? Unto whom shall I compare thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach
is as great as the sea: who shall heal thee?
14
Nun Thy prophets have preached vanity and foolishness unto thee; and they have not uncovered thine iniquity to turn away thy captivity but have preached unto thee vain prophecies and digressions.
15
Samech All that passed by clapped
their hands over thee and whistled and wagged their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem,
saying,
Is this the city that
men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
16
Pe All thine enemies opened their mouths regarding thee; they whistled and gnashed their teeth; they said, Swallow
her up; certainly this
is the day that we looked for; we have found it, we have seen
it.
17
Ain The LORD has done
that which he had determined; he has fulfilled his word that he had commanded from
the time of old; he has destroyed and has not forgiven; and he has caused
thine enemy to rejoice over thee; he has raised up the horn of thine adversaries.