Lamentations 2:13–19

¹³What thing shall I take to witness for thee? ^wwhat thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem?

^wWhat shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion?

For ^xthy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

¹⁴Thy ^xxprophets have seen ^yvain and ^zfoolish things for thee:

And ^athey have not discovered thine iniquity, ^bto turn away thy captivity;

But have seen for thee false ^cburdens and causes of banishment.

¹⁵All that pass by ^eclap their hands at thee;

They ^dehiss and ^fwag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, ^gsaying,

Is this the city that men call ^hThe perfection of beauty, ⁱThe joy of the whole earth?

^16jAll thine enemies ^khave opened their mouth against thee:

They ^dehiss and ^lgnash the teeth: they say, ^mWe have swallowed her up:

Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, ⁿwe have seen it.

^17oThe Lord hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded ^pin the days of old:

^qHe hath thrown down, ^qand hath not pitied: and he hath ^rcaused thine enemy to rejoice over thee,

He hath set up ^sthe horn of thine adversaries.

¹⁸Their heart cried unto the Lord,

^tO wall of the daughter of Zion, ^ulet tears run down like a river ^vday and night:

Give thyself no ^wrest; let not ^xthe apple of thine eye cease.

¹⁹Arise, ^ycry out in the night: in the beginning of ^zthe watches,

^aPour out thine heart ^blike water before the face of the Lord:

Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of ^cthy young children,

^cThat faint for hunger ^din the top of every street.