¹³ How shall I ^(A)console^[a] you?
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?

¹² “Is it nothing to you, all you who ^[a]pass by?
Behold and see
^(A)If there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
Which has been brought on me,
Which the Lord has inflicted
In the day of His fierce anger.

^(A)‘Your affliction is incurable,
Your wound is severe.
¹³ There is no one to plead your cause,
That you may be bound up;
^(B)You have no healing medicines.
^14 (C)All your lovers have forgotten you;
They do not seek you;
For I have wounded you with the wound ^(D)of an enemy,
With the chastisement ^(E)of a cruel one,
For the multitude of your iniquities,
^(F)Because your sins have increased.
¹⁵ Why ^(G)do you cry about your affliction?
Your sorrow is incurable.
Because of the multitude of your iniquities,
Because your sins have increased,
I have done these things to you.

^(A)‘Let my eyes flow with tears night and day,
And let them not cease;
^(B)For the virgin daughter of my people
Has been broken with a mighty stroke, with a very severe blow.

⁹ We would have healed Babylon,
But she is not healed.
Forsake her, and ^(D)let us go everyone to his own country;
^(E)For her judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up to the skies.