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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?”

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13 What can I say for you?(A)
    With what can I compare you,
    Daughter(B) Jerusalem?
To what can I liken you,
    that I may comfort you,
    Virgin Daughter Zion?(C)
Your wound is as deep as the sea.(D)
    Who can heal you?

14 The visions of your prophets
    were false(E) and worthless;
they did not expose your sin
    to ward off your captivity.(F)
The prophecies they gave you
    were false and misleading.(G)

15 All who pass your way
    clap their hands at you;(H)
they scoff(I) and shake their heads(J)
    at Daughter Jerusalem:(K)
“Is this the city that was called
    the perfection of beauty,(L)
    the joy of the whole earth?”(M)

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