Lamentations 2:7-9

International Children’s Bible

⁷ The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his Temple.
He has given to the enemy
    the walls of Jerusalem’s palaces.
The enemy shouted in the Lord’s Temple
    as if it were a feast day.

⁸ The Lord planned to destroy
    the wall around Jerusalem.
He marked the wall off with a measuring line.
    He did not stop himself from destroying it.
He made the walls and defenses sad.
    Together they have fallen.

⁹ Jerusalem’s gates have fallen to the ground.
    He destroyed and smashed the bars of the gates.
Her king and her princes are sent away among the nations.
    The teaching of the Lord has stopped.
The prophets have not had
    any visions from the Lord.