Lamentations 2:13-15

International Standard Version

¹³ What can be said about you?
    To what should you be compared, fair^[a] Jerusalem?
To what may I liken you,
    so I may comfort you, fair one^[b] of Zion?
Indeed, your wound is as deep as the sea—
    who can heal you?

¹⁴ Your prophets look on your behalf;
    they see false and deceptive visions.
They did not expose your sins
    in order to restore what had been captured.^[c]
Instead, they crafted oracles for you
    that are false and misleading.

¹⁵ Everyone who passes by on the road
    shake their fists^[d] at you.
They hiss and shake their heads
    at cherished^[e] Jerusalem:
“Is this the city men used to call ‘The Perfection of Beauty,’
    and ‘The Joy of the Entire Earth’”?