²⁸ Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.

¹⁷ I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.

¹⁰ 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.

⁹ I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it.

⁷ I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top.