Lamentations 2:7-9

English Standard Version

^7 (A)The Lord has scorned his altar,
    ^(B)disowned his sanctuary;
^(C)he has delivered into the hand of the enemy
    the walls of her palaces;
^(D)they raised a clamor in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of festival.

^8 (E)The Lord determined to lay in ruins
    ^(F)the wall of the daughter of Zion;
^(G)he stretched out the measuring line;
    he did not restrain his hand from destroying;
^(H)he caused rampart and wall to lament;
    ^(I)they languished together.

⁹ Her gates have sunk into the ground;
    ^(J)he has ruined ^(K)and broken her bars;
^(L)her king and princes are among the nations;
    the law is no more,
and ^(M)her prophets find
    no vision from the Lord.