13 What can I say about you, Jerusalem?What can I compare you to?What can I say you are like?How can I comfort you, Jerusalem?Your ruin is as big as the sea.No one can heal you.
14 Your prophets saw visions about you.But they were false and worth nothing.They did not expose your sins.They did not keep you from being captured.The messages they preached to you were false.They fooled you.
15 All who pass by on the roadclap their hands at you.They make fun and shake their headsat Jerusalem.They ask, “Is this the city that people calledthe most beautiful city,the happiest city on earth?”
16 All your enemies open their mouthsto say things against you.They make fun and grind their teeth in anger.They say, “We have swallowed her up.This is the day we were waiting for.We have finally seen it happen.”
17 The Lord has done what he planned.He has carried out the orderthat he commanded long ago.He has destroyed without mercy.He has made your enemies happy because of what happened to you.He has strengthened your enemies.
18 The peoplecry out to the Lord.Wall of Jerusalem,let your tears flowlike a river day and night.Do not stop.Do not let your eyes rest.
19 Get up, cry out in the night.Cry all through the night.Pour out your heart like waterin prayer to the Lord.Lift up your hands in prayer to him.Pray for the life of your children.They are fainting with hungeron every street corner.