Lamentations 2:7

‘And I will give your cities over as a waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.

Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place; They have set up their own signs for signs.

You have spurned the covenant of Your slave; You have profaned his crown to the ground.

‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “Behold, I am about to turn back the weapons of war which are in your hands, with which you are warring against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall; and I will gather them into the center of this city.

There is a sound of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon, To declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, Vengeance for His temple.

And he burned the house of Yahweh, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire.

The roads of Zion are in mourning Because no one comes to the appointed times. All her gates are desolate; Her priests are sighing, Her virgins are grieving, And she herself is bitter.

ז Zayin