Verse 13
Lamentations 2:13
Darby Translation
13
What shall I take to witness for thee? what shall I liken unto thee, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, virgin daughter of Zion? For thy ruin is great as the sea: who will heal thee?
Original Language Text
hebrew
מָֽה אֲעִידֵ֞/ךְ מָ֣ה אֲדַמֶּה לָּ֗/ךְ הַ/בַּת֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם מָ֤ה אַשְׁוֶה לָּ/ךְ֙ וַ/אֲנַֽחֲמֵ֔/ךְ בְּתוּלַ֖ת בַּת צִיּ֑וֹן כִּֽי גָד֥וֹל כַּ/יָּ֛ם שִׁבְרֵ֖/ךְ מִ֥י יִרְפָּא לָֽ/ךְ
English Translation
What should I testify to you? What should I compare you to, O daughter of Jerusalem? What should I liken you to, and comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is great like the sea; who can heal you?
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 2 Context
1
How hath the Lord in his anger covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud! He hath cast down from the...
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2
The Lord hath swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob, and hath not spared; he hath thrown down in h...
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3
He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath withdrawn his right hand from before...
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4
He hath bent his bow like an enemy; he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and hath slain all...
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5
The Lord is become as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel; he hath swallowed up all her palaces; h...
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6
And he hath violently cast down his enclosure as a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly:...
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7
The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath rejected his sanctuary; he hath given up into the hand of...
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8
Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out the line, h...
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9
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes...
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10
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; they have cast dust upon...
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11
Mine eyes are consumed with tears, my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, becaus...
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12
They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of...
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13
What shall I take to witness for thee? what shall I liken unto thee, daughter of Jerusalem? What sha...
14
Thy prophets have seen vanity and folly for thee; and they have not revealed thine iniquity, to turn...
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15
All that pass by clap [their] hands at thee; they hiss and shake their head at the daughter of Jerus...
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16
All thine enemies open their mouth against thee, they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have sw...
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17
Jehovah hath done what he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word which he had commanded from the da...
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18
Their heart cried unto the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a torrent d...
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19
Arise, cry out in the night, in the beginning of the watches; pour out thy heart like water before t...
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20
See, Jehovah, and consider to whom thou hast done this! Shall the women eat their fruit, the infants...
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21
The child and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men are fallen b...
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22
Thou hast called up, as on the day of a set feast, my terrors on every side; and in the day of Jehov...
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