Lamentations 2:7-9

New International Version

⁷ The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his sanctuary.^(A)
He has given the walls of her palaces^(B)
    into the hands of the enemy;
they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of an appointed festival.^(C)

⁸ The Lord determined to tear down
    the wall around Daughter Zion.^(D)
He stretched out a measuring line^(E)
    and did not withhold his hand from destroying.
He made ramparts^(F) and walls lament;
    together they wasted away.^(G)

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