Lamentations 2:13–18

13 How shall I dconsole 1you?

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 eprophets have seen for you

False and deceptive visions;

They have not funcovered your iniquity,

To bring back your captives,

But have envisioned for you false gprophecies and delusions.

15 All who 2pass by hclap their hands at you;

They hiss iand shake their heads

At the daughter of Jerusalem:

“Is this the city that is called

j‘The perfection of beauty,

The joy of the whole earth’?”

16 kAll your enemies have opened their mouth against you;

They hiss and gnash their teeth.

They say, l“We have swallowed her up!

Surely this is the mday we have waited for;

We have found it, nwe have seen it!”

17 The Lord has done what He opurposed;

He has fulfilled His word

Which He commanded in days of old.

He has thrown down and has not pitied,

And He has caused an enemy to prejoice over you;

He has exalted the 3horn of your adversaries.

18 Their heart cried out to the Lord,

“O wall of the daughter of Zion,

qLet tears run down like a river day and night;

Give yourself no relief;

Give 4your eyes no rest.