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Mem

13 What shall I testify about you?
To what (A)shall I equate you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
To what shall I liken you as I comfort you,
O (B)virgin daughter of Zion?
For your [a]destruction is as vast as the sea;
Who can (C)heal you?

Nun

14 Your (D)prophets have beheld for you
Worthless and ineffective visions;
And they have not (E)uncovered your iniquity
So as to [b]return you from captivity,
But they have (F)beheld for you worthless and misleading [c]oracles.

Samekh

15 All who pass along the way
(G)Clap their hands in derision at you;
They (H)hiss and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem,
“Is this the city of which they said,
(I)The perfection of beauty,
(J)The joy of the whole earth’?”

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:13 Lit breaking
  2. Lamentations 2:14 Or restore
  3. Lamentations 2:14 Lit burdens