~ Lamentations or "Funeral Songs" ~

The roads to Zion mourn,
for no one comes to her appointed feasts.
All her gateways are desolate,
her priest groan,
her maidens grieve,
and she is in bitter anguish.

Her foes have become her masters;
her enemies are at ease.
the Lord has brought her grief
because of her many sins.
Her children have gone into exile,
captive before the foe.

All the splendor has departed
from the Daughter of Zion.
Her princes are like deer that find no pasture;
in weakness they have fled before the pursuer.

(Lamentations 1:4-6)