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11 My eyes fail with tears.
    My heart is troubled.
My liver is poured on the earth,
    because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
    because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

12 They ask their mothers,
    “Where is grain and wine?”
    when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city,
    when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

13 What shall I testify to you?
    What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I compare to you,
    that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion?
For your breach is as big as the sea.
    Who can heal you?

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