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Lamentations 2:11-13
International Standard Version
Lamentations 2:11-13
International Standard Version
11 My eyes are worn out from crying,
my insides are churning,
My emotions pour out in grief[a]
because my people are destroyed—
Children and infants faint
in the streets of the city.
12 They ask their mothers,
“Is there anything to eat or drink?”[b]
They faint in the streets of the city
like wounded men.
Their life ebbs away
while they lie on their mother’s bosom.
13 What can be said about you?
To what should you be compared, fair[c] Jerusalem?
To what may I liken you,
so I may comfort you, fair one[d] of Zion?
Indeed, your wound is as deep as the sea—
who can heal you?
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:11 Lit. my liver empties upon the ground
- Lamentations 2:12 Lit. any grain and wine
- Lamentations 2:13 Lit. daughter of
- Lamentations 2:13 Lit. virgin daughter
International Standard Version (ISV)
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