The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust upon their heads. They have girded themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Thou have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. And there was none who escaped or remained in the day of LORD's anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have dandled and brought up.

He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from LORD.

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it upon him.

Waters flowed over my head. I said, I am cut off.

Thou drew near in the day that I called upon thee. Thou said, Fear not.

Depart ye, they cried to them. Unclean! Depart, depart, do not touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [here].

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.