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.
Joth. Þei saten in erþe, þe elde men of þe douytir of Sion weren stille; þei bispreynten her heedis with aische, þe eldere men of Juda ben girt with hairis; þe virgyns of Juda castiden doun to erþe her heedis.