Lamentations 2:7-9

New Catholic Bible

⁷ The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his sanctuary.
He has delivered the walls of her palaces
    into the power of the enemy
who raised a clamor in the house of the Lord
    as on a festival day.
⁸ The Lord was determined to destroy
    the walls of the daughter of Zion.
He marked off its boundaries with a measuring line
    and did not relent in his purpose.
He caused both wall and rampart to lament;
    together they crumbled to the ground.
⁹ The bars of her gates have been shattered,
    and the gates themselves have sunk into the ground.
Her king and her princes are in exile among the Gentiles;
    there is no instruction any longer from priests,
and her prophets have not received
    any vision from the Lord.^[a]