The elders of the daughter of Zion Sit on the ground and are silent. They have thrown dust on their heads; They have put on sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem Have bowed their heads to the ground.

锡安城的长老坐在地上默默无声；他们扬起尘土落在头上，腰束麻布；耶路撒冷的处女垂头至地。

锡安的长老坐在地上，默默无声；他们扬起尘土落在头上，腰束麻布；耶路撒冷的少女垂头至地。

锡安的长老坐在地上，默默无声；他们扬起尘土落在头上，腰束麻布；耶路撒冷的少女垂头至地。

锡安城的长老腰束麻布，头蒙灰尘，坐在地上，默然不语；耶路撒冷的少女垂头至地。

锡安居民（“居民”原文作“女子”）的长老都坐在地上，默默无声；他们把尘灰撒在头上，腰束麻布。耶路撒冷的处女都垂头至地。

錫安城的長老坐在地上默默無聲；他們揚起塵土落在頭上，腰束麻布；耶路撒冷的處女垂頭至地。

錫安的長老坐在地上，默默無聲；他們揚起塵土落在頭上，腰束麻布；耶路撒冷的少女垂頭至地。

錫安的長老坐在地上，默默無聲；他們揚起塵土落在頭上，腰束麻布；耶路撒冷的少女垂頭至地。

錫安城的長老腰束麻布，頭蒙灰塵，坐在地上，默然不語；耶路撒冷的少女垂頭至地。

錫安居民（“居民”原文作“女子”）的長老都坐在地上，默默無聲；他們把塵灰撒在頭上，腰束麻布。耶路撒冷的處女都垂頭至地。

錫安小姐的長老坐在地上、沉默無言；他們捧起了塵土撒在頭上，腰束麻布；耶路撒冷的童女垂頭至地。

郇女之長老坐地、緘默無言兮、以塵蒙首、以麻束腰兮、耶路撒冷處女、俯首至地兮、

郇邑長老坐於塗炭、緘口無言、首蒙灰、腰束麻、耶路撒冷處女、俯首至地兮。

郇邑之長老、坐地緘默、首蒙塵、腰束麻、耶路撒冷之處女、俯首至地、俯首至地或作頭垂塵埃

The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have sprinkled dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

The elders of the city of Zion sit silently on the ground. They have sprinkled dust on their heads. They’ve put on the clothes of sadness. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads toward the ground.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

The leaders of beautiful Jerusalem sit on the ground in silence. They are clothed in burlap and throw dust on their heads. The young women of Jerusalem hang their heads in shame.

The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

The elders of the daughter of Zion Sit on the ground and keep silence; They throw dust on their heads And gird themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem Bow their heads to the ground.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground,[ and] keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dirt on their heads; They have dressed in sackcloth. Jerusalem’s young women stare down at the ground.כ( Kaf)

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

And her gates will lament and mourn, And she will sit deserted on the ground.

When they looked from a distance and did not recognize him, they raised their voices and wept. And each of them tore his robe, and they threw dust over their heads toward the sky.Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, with no one speaking a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

In their streets they have put on sackcloth; On their housetops and in their public squares Everyone is wailing, overcome with weeping.

The songs of the palace will turn to wailing on that day,” declares the Lord God.“ The corpses will be many; in every place they will throw them out. Hush!”

How lonely sits the city That once had many people! She has become like a widow Who was once great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces Has become a forced laborer!

Let him sit alone and keep quiet, Since He has laid it on him.

They will put on sackcloth and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces, and a bald patch on all their heads.

The roads of Zion are in mourning Because no one comes to an appointed feast. All her gates are deserted; Her priests groan, Her virgins are worried, And as for Zion herself, it is bitter for her.

“ Come down and sit in the dust, Virgin daughter of Babylon; Sit on the ground without a throne, Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the ground on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, both he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

Tamar took ashes and put them on her head, and tore her long sleeved garment which was on her; and she put her hand on her head and went on her way, crying out as she went.

Those who used to eat delicacies Are made to tremble in the streets; Those who were raised in crimson clothing Embrace garbage heaps.

Why are we sitting still? Assemble yourselves, and let’s go into the fortified cities And perish there, For the Lord our God has doomed us And given us poisoned water to drink, Because we have sinned against the Lord.

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the secretary, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and reported to him the words of Rabshakeh.

Elders are absent from the gate, Young men from their music.

Wail like a virgin clothed with sackcloth For the groom of her youth.

On that day the beautiful virgins And the young men will faint from thirst.

The presence of the Lord has scattered them, He will not continue to look at them; They did not honor the priests, They did not favor the elders.

Also they will shave themselves bald for you And put on sackcloth; And they will weep for you in bitterness of soul With bitter mourning.

Therefore at such a time the prudent person keeps quiet, because it is an evil time.

Leaders were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected.

“ Sit silently, and go into darkness, Daughter of the Chaldeans; For you will no longer be called The queen of kingdoms.

And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping and mourning, saying,‘ Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had ships at sea became rich from her prosperity, for in one hour she has been laid waste!’