TSK · Lamentations 2:10

Joshua tore his clothes; he and the leaders of Israel lay face down on the ground before the ark of the LORD until evening and threw dirt on their heads.

But when they gazed intently from a distance but did not recognize him, they began to weep loudly. Each of them tore his robes, and they threw dust into the air over their heads.

Her gates will mourn and lament; deprived of her people, she will sit on the ground.

Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.

“Sit silently! Go to a hiding place, O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, you will no longer be called‘Queen of kingdoms.’

¶ The Prophet Speaks:א(Alef) Alas! The city once full of people now sits all alone! The prominent lady among the nations has become a widow! The princess who once ruled the provinces has become a forced laborer!

י(Yod) Let a person sit alone in silence, when the LORD is disciplining him.

פ(Pe) The LORD himself has scattered them; he no longer watches over them. They did not honor the priests; they did not show favor to the elders.

The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.

they will tear out their hair because of you and put on sackcloth, and they will weep bitterly over you with intense mourning.

For this reason whoever is smart keeps quiet in such a time, for it is an evil time.

In that day your beautiful young women and your young men will faint from thirst.