Lamentations 2:13-15

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¹³ What can I ·say [testify] about you, [^Ldaughter] Jerusalem?
    What can I compare you to?
What can I say you are like?
    How can I comfort you, ·Jerusalem [^Lvirgin daughter Zion; ^Clocation of the Temple]?
Your ·ruin [wound] is as ·deep [great] as the sea.
    ·No one [^LWho…?] can heal you.

¹⁴ Your prophets saw visions,
    but they were ·false [empty] and ·worth nothing [insipid; nonsense; Ezek. 10:10–12].
They did not ·point out [expose] your ·sins [guilt]
    to ·keep you from being captured [or restore your fortunes].
They ·preached what was [^Lsaw oracles for you that were] ·false [empty]
    and ·led you wrongly [fraudulent].

¹⁵ All who pass by on the road
    clap their hands at you [^Cin approval of Jerusalem’s destruction; Ezek. 25:6];
they ·make fun of [hiss at; ^Cin scorn; 1 Kin. 9:8; Jer. 19:8; Zeph. 2:15] [^Lthe daughter of] Jerusalem
    and shake their heads.
They ask, “Is this the city that people called
    the most beautiful city,
the ·happiest place on [joy of the whole] earth [Ps. 48:2]?”