Lamentations 2:13-15

Modern English Version

¹³ What can I say for you,
    to what shall I liken you,
    O daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I compare with you,
    that I may comfort you,
    O virgin daughter of Zion?
For your devastation is great like the sea;
    who can heal you?

¹⁴ Your prophets have seen for you
    false and deceptive visions;
they have not revealed your iniquity,
    to bring back your captives,
but have seen for you oracles
    that are false and misleading.

¹⁵ All who pass by
    clap their hands at you;
they hiss and shake their heads
    at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,
“Is this the city that men call
    the perfection of beauty,
    the joy of the whole earth?”