Lam 1:4, 13, 2:1-9 | ESV | STEP | The roads to Zion mourn , for none come to the festival ; all her gates are desolate ; her priests groan ; her virgins have been afflicted , and she herself suffers bitterly .

4 The roads to Zion mourn,
for none come to ^athe festival;
^ball her gates are desolate;
her priests ^cgroan;
her virgins have been afflicted, ^{▼▼Septuagint, Old Latin dragged away}
and she herself suffers bitterly.

Lamentations 1:13

13 “From on high he ^esent fire;
into my bones ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew bones and} he made it descend;
^ghe spread a net for my feet;
he turned me back;
^hhe has left me stunned,
faint all the day long.

Lamentations 2:1-9

The Lord Has Destroyed Without Pity

1 How the Lord in his anger
has set the daughter of Zion ⁱunder a cloud!
^jHe has cast down from heaven to earth
the splendor of Israel;
he has not remembered ^khis footstool
in the day of his anger.
2 The Lord ^lhas swallowed up ^mwithout mercy
all the habitations of Jacob;
in his wrath ⁿhe has broken down
the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
he has brought ^odown to the ground ^pin dishonor
the kingdom ^qand its rulers.
3 He has cut down in ^rfierce anger
all ^sthe might of Israel;
^the has withdrawn from them his right hand
in the face of the enemy;
^uhe has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob,
consuming all around.
4 ^vHe has bent his bow like an enemy,
with his right hand set ^wlike a foe;
and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyes
in the tent of the daughter of Zion;
he has poured out his fury like fire.
5 ^xThe Lord has become like an enemy;
^yhe has swallowed up Israel;
^zhe has swallowed up all its palaces;
he has laid in ruins its strongholds,
and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah
^aamourning and lamentation.
6 He has laid waste his booth like a garden,
laid in ruins ^abhis meeting place;
^acthe Lord has made Zion forget
festival and ^adSabbath,
and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.
7 ^aeThe Lord has scorned his altar,
^afdisowned his sanctuary;
^aghe has delivered into the hand of the enemy
the walls of her palaces;
^ahthey raised a clamor in the house of the Lord
as on the day of festival.
8 ^aiThe Lord determined to lay in ruins
^ajthe wall of the daughter of Zion;
^akhe stretched out the measuring line;
he did not restrain his hand from destroying;
^alhe caused rampart and wall to lament;
^amthey languished together.
9 Her gates have sunk into the ground;
^anhe has ruined ^aoand broken her bars;
^apher king and princes are among the nations;
the law is no more,
and ^aqher prophets find
no vision from the Lord.