13How shall I admonish you?
         To what shall I compare you,
         O daughter of Jerusalem?
         To what shall I liken you as I comfort you,
         O virgin daughter of Zion?
         For your ruin is as vast as the sea;
         Who can heal you?

14Your prophets have seen for you
         False and foolish visions;
         And they have not exposed your iniquity
         So as to restore you from captivity,
         But they have seen for you false and misleading oracles.

15All who pass along the way
         Clap their hands in derision at you;
         They hiss and shake their heads
         At the daughter of Jerusalem,
         “Is this the city of which they said,
         ‘The perfection of beauty,
         A joy to all the earth’?”

16All your enemies
         Have opened their mouths wide against you;
         They hiss and gnash their teeth.
         They say, “We have swallowed her up!
         Surely this is the day for which we waited;
         We have reached it, we have seen it.”

17The LORD has done what He purposed;
         He has accomplished His word
         Which He commanded from days of old.
         He has thrown down without sparing,
         And He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you;
         He has exalted the might of your adversaries.

18Their heart cried out to the Lord,
         “O wall of the daughter of Zion,
         Let your tears run down like a river day and night;
         Give yourself no relief,
         Let your eyes have no rest.

19“Arise, cry aloud in the night
         At the beginning of the night watches;
         Pour out your heart like water
         Before the presence of the Lord;
         Lift up your hands to Him
         For the life of your little ones
         Who are faint because of hunger
         At the head of every street.”

20See, O LORD, and look!
         With whom have You dealt thus?
         Should women eat their offspring,
         The little ones who were born healthy?
         Should priest and prophet be slain
         In the sanctuary of the Lord?

21On the ground in the streets
         Lie young and old;
         My virgins and my young men
         Have fallen by the sword.
         You have slain them in the day of Your anger,
         You have slaughtered, not sparing.

22You called as in the day of an appointed feast
         My terrors on every side;
         And there was no one who escaped or survived
         In the day of the LORD’S anger.
         Those whom I bore and reared,
         My enemy annihilated them.

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