Lamentations 2:13

Modern English Version

What can I say for you, to what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare with you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your devastation is great like the sea; who can heal you?

Cross References

2 Samuel 5:20

So David came to Baal Perazim, and David defeated them there. He said, “The Lord has breached my enemies before me like bursting tides.” Therefore, he named that place Baal Perazim.

2 Kings 19:21

This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you, she ridicules you— virgin daughter of Zion. Behind you, she shakes her head — daughter of Jerusalem.

Psalm 60:2

You have made the earth tremble; You have split it open; heal its breaches, for it is shaking.

Isaiah 37:22

this is the word which the Lord has spoken against him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and mocked you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

Jeremiah 14:17

Therefore you will say this word to them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people has been broken with a great blow, with a very infected wound.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You stricken us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but there was nothing good; and for the time of healing, but behold, trouble!

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Jeremiah 9:18

And let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.

Lamentations 1:12

Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the Lord has inflicted on the day of His fierce anger.

Ezekiel 32:31

Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his army, says the Lord God.

Daniel 9:12

He has confirmed His words, which He had spoken against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done such as has been done to Jerusalem.