Lamentations 2:13

What thing shall I say to thee? 1 What thing shall I liken to thee, O Bat Yerushalayim? 1 What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, 1 O Betulat Bat Tziyon? 1 For thy shever (destruction) is as gadol as the yam. 1 Who can heal thee? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

In Context

12They say to their imahot: 1 Where is grain and yayin? 1 Say they when they swooned like the wounded 1 in the rechovot Ir, 1 when their nefesh ebbed away 1 into the kheyk imahot of them. 1

14Thy nevi'im have seen false 1 and worthless visions for thee; 1 and they have not exposed thine avon, 1 to ward off thy captivity; 1 but have seen for thee mase'ot shav 1 and madduchim (false and misleading burdens, oracles). 1

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Cross References

Psalms 60:2When he fought Aram Naharayim and Aram Tzovah and when Yoav returned and struck down 12,000 of Edom in the Gey Melach) 1

Jeremiah 8:22Is there no tzori (medicinal balsam or balm) in Gil'ad; 1 is there no rofeh (physician) there? 1 Why then is the health 1 of the Bat Ami not recovered? 1

Jeremiah 14:17Therefore thou shalt say this davar unto them: 1 Let mine eyes run down with tears 1 lailah and yomam, and let them not cease: 1 for the Betulat Bat Ami is broken 1 with a shever gadol (great calamity), 1 with a severe wound. 1

Jeremiah 30:12For thus saith Hashem: 1 Thy bruise is incurable, and thy makkah (blow, wound) is grievous. 1

Jeremiah 30:15Why dost thou cry out over thine affliction? 1 Thy pain is incurable for the multitude of thine avon; 1 because thy chattot were increased, 1 I have done these things unto thee. 1

Lamentations 1:12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? 1 Consider, and see 1 if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, 1 which is done unto me, 1 wherewith Hashem hath afflicted me 1 in the Yom Charon Af (day of His fierce anger). 1

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:11-22

Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. 12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn… Read the whole commentary →

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