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Teth

Her gates were thrown to the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars; her king and her princes are carried off among the Gentiles; there is no law; nor have her prophets found vision from the LORD.

Jod

10 ¶ The elders of the daughter of Zion sat upon the ground and are silent: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth; the daughters of Jerusalem hung their heads down to the ground.

Caph

11 My eyes fail with tears; my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people because the children and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city.

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Her gates(A) have sunk into the ground;
    their bars(B) he has broken and destroyed.
Her king and her princes are exiled(C) among the nations,
    the law(D) is no more,
and her prophets(E) no longer find
    visions(F) from the Lord.

10 The elders of Daughter Zion
    sit on the ground in silence;(G)
they have sprinkled dust(H) on their heads(I)
    and put on sackcloth.(J)
The young women of Jerusalem
    have bowed their heads to the ground.(K)

11 My eyes fail from weeping,(L)
    I am in torment within(M);
my heart(N) is poured out(O) on the ground
    because my people are destroyed,(P)
because children and infants faint(Q)
    in the streets of the city.

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