Lamentations 2:12-14

New American Standard Bible

¹² They say to their mothers,
“^(A)Where is grain and wine?”
As they faint like a wounded person
In the streets of the city,
As their ^(B)lives are poured out
^[a]In their mothers’ arms.
¹³ How shall I admonish you?
What ^(C)shall I compare to you,
Daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I liken to you as I comfort you,
^(D)Virgin daughter of Zion?
For your collapse is as vast as the sea;
Who can ^(E)heal you?
¹⁴ Your ^(F)prophets have seen for you
Worthless and deceptive visions;
And they have not ^(G)exposed your wrongdoing
So as to restore you from captivity,
But they have ^(H)seen for you worthless and misleading pronouncements.