Lamentations 2:10
“The destruction of the miserable is mourned, due to reverence for their status. First, regarding elders who: "sit on the ground in silence." Namely, as signs of great sadness. Like Job 2:13: "And they sat with him on the ground seven days and nights and no one spoke a word for him, for they saw that his suffering was…”
Source: Septuagint
10The elders of the daughter of Zion Have sat upon the ground, They have kept silence: They have cast up dust upon their heads; They have girded themselves with sackcloth: They have brought down to the ground The chief virgins in Jerusalem.
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8And he has turned to destroy The wall of the daughter of Zion: He has stretched out the measuring line, He has not turned back his hand from afflicting her: Therefore the bulwark mourned, And the wall was weakened with it.
9Her gates are sunk into the ground: He has destroyed and broken to pieces her bars, And her king and her prince among the Gentiles: There is no law, Nay, her prophets have seen no vision from the Lord.
— Lamentations 2:10 —
11Mine eyes have failed with tears, My heart is troubled, My glory is cast down to the ground, For the destruction of the daughter of my people; While the infant and suckling swoon In the streets of the city.
12They said to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? While they fainted like wounded men In the streets of the city, While their souls were poured out Into their mother’s bosom.