{Yod} The Senators of the daughter Zion sit upon the ground in silence: they have strawed ashes upon their heads, and girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

{Lamed} Even when they spake to their mothers, "Where is meat and drink?" For while they so said, they fell down in the streets of the city, like as they had been wounded, and some died in their mothers' bosom.

{Pe} The LORD hath fulfilled the thing that he was purposed to do; and performed that he had devised long ago. He hath destroyed; and not spared. He hath caused thine adversary to triumph over thee; and set up the horn of thine enemy.

He hath set me in darkness, as they that be dead forever.

Thou hast inclined thyself unto me, when I called upon thee, and haste said, "Fear not."

The elders sit no more under the gates, and the young men use no more the playing of Music.

But thou, O LORD, that remainest for evermore, and thy seat, world without end: