Verse 13

Lamentations 2:13

GOD'S WORD Translation

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13 What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you?

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?

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Chapter 2 Context

1 How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast the beauty of I... Focus ↗

2 The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. He has thrown down in his wrath t... Focus ↗

3 He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger. He has drawn back his right hand from before... Focus ↗

4 He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary. Has killed all... Focus ↗

5 The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He... Focus ↗

6 He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden. He has destroyed his place of... Focus ↗

7 The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palace... Focus ↗

8 Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line. He h... Focus ↗

9 Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes... Focus ↗

10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on t... Focus ↗

11 My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destr... Focus ↗

12 They ask their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of... Focus ↗

13 What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare...

14 Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to... Focus ↗

15 All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem,... Focus ↗

16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say... Focus ↗

17 Yahweh has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of ol... Focus ↗

18 Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day a... Focus ↗

19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before... Focus ↗

20 “Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the childre... Focus ↗

21 “The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen... Focus ↗

22 “You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one tha... Focus ↗

Verse Information

Book: Lamentations
Chapter: Chapter 2 (22 verses)
Version: GOD'S WORD Translation

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