Lamentations 2:7-9

Modern English Version

⁷ The Lord has scorned His altar,
    He has disowned His sanctuary;
He has given up the walls of her palaces
    into the hand of the enemy.
They have made a noise in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of a solemn feast.

⁸ The Lord has purposed to destroy
    the wall of the daughter of Zion.
He has stretched out a line;
    He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying;
therefore He caused the rampart and the wall to lament;
    they languished together.

⁹ Her gates have sunk into the ground;
    He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations;
    the Law is no more,
and her prophets find
    no vision from the Lord.