Lamentations 2:11-16
English Standard Version
11 (A)My eyes are spent with weeping;
(B)my stomach churns;
(C)my bile is poured out to the ground
(D)because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
(E)because infants and babies (F)faint
in the streets of the city.
12 They cry to their mothers,
(G)“Where is bread and wine?”
(H)as they faint like a wounded man
in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
on their mothers' bosom.
13 What can I say for you, (I)to what compare you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
(J)What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
(K)For your ruin is vast as the sea;
who can heal you?
14 (L)Your prophets have seen for you
false and deceptive visions;
(M)they have not exposed your iniquity
to (N)restore your fortunes,
(O)but have seen for you (P)oracles
that are false and misleading.
15 All who pass along the way
clap their hands at you;
(Q)they hiss and wag their heads
at the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
(R)the perfection of beauty,
(S)the joy of all the earth?”
16 (T)All your enemies
rail against you;
they hiss, they gnash their teeth,
they cry: “We (U)have swallowed her!
Ah, this is the day we longed for;
now we have it; (V)we see it!”
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.