Lamentations 2:6–9

6 He has broken down ⌊his dwelling⌋g place like the garden;

he has ruined his appointed feasts;

Yahweh has made them forget in Zion

⌊festival⌋h and Sabbath,

and he has despised in his anger

king and priest.

7 The Lord has rejected his altar;

he has rejected his sanctuary;

he has delivered into the hands of the enemy

the walls of its citadel fortresses.i

They have cried out in the house of Yahweh

like a day of an appointed feast.

8 Yahweh has planned to destroy

the wall of the daughter of Zion.

He measured with a line; he has not restrained

his hand from destroying;

he caused rampart and wall to mourn;

together they have languished away.

9 Her gates have sunk into the earth;

he has ruined and broken her bars,

her kings and its princes are among the nations;

there is no more law.j

Also, her prophets have not found

a revelation from Yahweh.