Lamentations 2:12-14
International Standard Version
12 They ask their mothers,
“Is there anything to eat or drink?”[a]
They faint in the streets of the city
like wounded men.
Their life ebbs away
while they lie on their mother’s bosom.
13 What can be said about you?
To what should you be compared, fair[b] Jerusalem?
To what may I liken you,
so I may comfort you, fair one[c] of Zion?
Indeed, your wound is as deep as the sea—
who can heal you?
14 Your prophets look on your behalf;
they see false and deceptive visions.
They did not expose your sins
in order to restore what had been captured.[d]
Instead, they crafted oracles for you
that are false and misleading.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:12 Lit. any grain and wine
- Lamentations 2:13 Lit. daughter of
- Lamentations 2:13 Lit. virgin daughter
- Lamentations 2:14 Lit. restore your captivity
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