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

¹² “Is it nothing to you, all ^(A)you who pass by?
    ^(B)Look and see
if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
    which was brought upon me,
which ^(C)the Lord inflicted
    on ^(D)the day of his fierce anger.

¹² “For thus says the Lord:
^(A)Your hurt is incurable,
    ^(B)and your wound is grievous.
¹³ There is none to uphold your cause,
    no medicine for your wound,
    ^(C)no healing for you.
^14 (D)All your lovers have forgotten you;
    they care nothing for you;
for I have dealt you the blow of ^(E)an enemy,
    the punishment ^(F)of a merciless foe,
because your guilt is great,
    ^(G)because your sins are flagrant.
^15 (H)Why do you cry out over your hurt?
    ^(I)Your pain is incurable.
Because your guilt is great,
    ^(J)because your sins are flagrant,
    I have done these things to you.

¹⁷ “You shall say to them this word:
^(A)‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
    and let them not cease,
for the virgin ^(B)daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound,
    ^(C)with a very grievous blow.

²² Is there no ^(A)balm in Gilead?
    Is there no physician there?
Why then has the health of the daughter of my people
    not been restored?