Lamentations 2:12-14

International Children’s Bible

¹² They say to their mothers,
    “Where is some bread and wine?”
They faint like wounded soldiers
    in the streets of the city.
    They die in their mothers’ arms.

¹³ What can I say about you, Jerusalem?
    What can I compare you to?
What can I say you are like?
    How can I comfort you, Jerusalem?
Your ruin is as big as the sea.
    No one can heal you.

¹⁴ Your prophets saw visions about you.
    But they were false and worth nothing.
They did not expose your sins.
    They did not keep you from being captured.
The messages they preached to you were false.
    They fooled you.