Lamentations 2:13-15

International Children’s Bible

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.

¹⁵ All who pass by on the road
    clap their hands at you.
They make fun and shake their heads
    at Jerusalem.
They ask, “Is this the city that people called
    the most beautiful city,
    the happiest city on earth?”