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?

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.

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’?”