Lamentations 2:11-16

English Standard Version

¹¹^(A)My eyes are spent with weeping;
    ^(B)my stomach churns;
^(C)my bile is poured out to the ground
    ^(D)because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
^(E)because infants and babies ^(F)faint
    in the streets of the city.

¹²They cry to their mothers,
    ^(G)“Where is bread and wine?”
^(H)as they faint like a wounded man
    in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
    on their mothers' bosom.

¹³What can I say for you, ^(I)to what compare you,
    O daughter of Jerusalem?
^(J)What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you,
    O virgin daughter of Zion?
^(K)For your ruin is vast as the sea;
    who can heal you?

¹⁴^(L)Your prophets have seen for you
    false and deceptive visions;
^(M)they have not exposed your iniquity
    to ^(N)restore your fortunes,
^(O)but have seen for you ^(P)oracles
    that are false and misleading.

¹⁵All who pass along the way
    clap their hands at you;
^(Q)they hiss and wag their heads
    at the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
    ^(R)the perfection of beauty,
    ^(S)the joy of all the earth?”

¹⁶^(T)All your enemies
    rail against you;
they hiss, they gnash their teeth,
    they cry: “We ^(U)have swallowed her!
Ah, this is the day we longed for;
    now we have it; ^(V)we see it!”