13 How shall I (A)console[a] you?
To what shall I liken you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I compare with you, that I may comfort you,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
For your ruin is spread wide as the sea;
Who can heal you?

14 Your (B)prophets have seen for you
False and deceptive visions;
They have not (C)uncovered your iniquity,
To bring back your captives,
But have envisioned for you false (D)prophecies and delusions.

15 All who [b]pass by (E)clap their hands at you;
They hiss (F)and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem:
Is this the city that is called
(G)‘The perfection of beauty,
The joy of the whole earth’?”

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:13 Or bear witness to
  2. Lamentations 2:15 Lit. pass by this way

13 What can I say for you?(A)
    With what can I compare you,
    Daughter(B) Jerusalem?
To what can I liken you,
    that I may comfort you,
    Virgin Daughter Zion?(C)
Your wound is as deep as the sea.(D)
    Who can heal you?

14 The visions of your prophets
    were false(E) and worthless;
they did not expose your sin
    to ward off your captivity.(F)
The prophecies they gave you
    were false and misleading.(G)

15 All who pass your way
    clap their hands at you;(H)
they scoff(I) and shake their heads(J)
    at Daughter Jerusalem:(K)
“Is this the city that was called
    the perfection of beauty,(L)
    the joy of the whole earth?”(M)

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