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Lamentations 2:8-14
New International Version
Lamentations 2:8-14
New International Version
8 The Lord determined to tear down
the wall around Daughter Zion.(A)
He stretched out a measuring line(B)
and did not withhold his hand from destroying.
He made ramparts(C) and walls lament;
together they wasted away.(D)
9 Her gates(E) have sunk into the ground;
their bars(F) he has broken and destroyed.
Her king and her princes are exiled(G) among the nations,
the law(H) is no more,
and her prophets(I) no longer find
visions(J) from the Lord.
10 The elders of Daughter Zion
sit on the ground in silence;(K)
they have sprinkled dust(L) on their heads(M)
and put on sackcloth.(N)
The young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.(O)
11 My eyes fail from weeping,(P)
I am in torment within(Q);
my heart(R) is poured out(S) on the ground
because my people are destroyed,(T)
because children and infants faint(U)
in the streets of the city.
12 They say to their mothers,
“Where is bread and wine?”(V)
as they faint like the wounded
in the streets of the city,
as their lives ebb away(W)
in their mothers’ arms.(X)
Lamentations 2:8-14
King James Version
Lamentations 2:8-14
King James Version
8 The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the Lord.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
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