“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.”
Lamentations 2:10 (WEB)
Context Reading
8Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion.He has stretched out the line.He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying;He has made the rampart and wall lament.They languish together. 9Her gates have sunk into the ground.He has destroyed and broken her bars.Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not.Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh. 10The 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. 11My eyes fail with tears.My heart is troubled.My bile 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. 12They 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.