JOD. The 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.

I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for You are He that made me.

I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and have become as a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof.

I have not sat in the assembly of them as they mocked, but I feared because of Your power. I sat alone, for I was filled with bitterness.