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We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed;
Forsake her and (A)let us each go to his own country,
For her judgment has (B)touched heaven
And lifts up to the very skies.

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When I (A)would heal Israel,
Then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered,
And the evil deeds of Samaria,
For they work (B)falsehood;
The thief enters in;
(C)Raiders [a]ransack outside,

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 7:1 Lit strip

Lament over Jerusalem

37 (A)Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who (B)kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, (C)the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you did not want it.

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