Lamentations 2:13-15

New International Reader's Version

¹³ City of Jerusalem, what can I say about you?
    What can I compare you to?
People of Zion, what are you like?
    I want to comfort you.
Your wound is as deep as the ocean.
    Who can heal you?

¹⁴ The visions of your prophets were lies.
    They weren’t worth anything.
They didn’t show you the sins you had committed.
    So that’s why you were captured.
The messages they gave you were lies.
    They led you astray.

¹⁵ All those who pass by
    clap their hands and make fun of you.
They laugh at you and shake their heads
    at the city of Jerusalem.
They say, “Could that be the city
    that was called perfect and beautiful?
    Is that the city that brought joy to everyone on earth?”