Lamentations 2:14–19

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.

19 “Arise, rcry out in the night,

At the beginning of the watches;

sPour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.

Lift your hands toward Him

For the life of your young children,

Who faint from hunger tat the head of every street.”