Lamentations 2:13

New American Bible - revised edition

To what can I compare you—to what can I liken you— O daughter Jerusalem? What example can I give in order to comfort you, virgin daughter Zion? For your breach is vast as the sea; who could heal you?

Cross References

2 Samuel 5:20

So David went to Baal-perazim, and he defeated them there. He said, “The Lord has broken through my enemies before me just as water breaks through a dam.” Therefore that place was called Baal-perazim.

2 Kings 19:21

This is the word the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you, laughs you to scorn, the virgin daughter Zion! Behind you she wags her head, daughter Jerusalem.

Psalm 60:2

when he fought against Aram-Naharaim and Aram-Zobah; and Joab, coming back, killed twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

Isaiah 37:22

This is the word the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you, laughs you to scorn, the virgin daughter Zion; Behind you she wags her head, daughter Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 14:17

Speak to them this word: Let my eyes stream with tears night and day, without rest, Over the great destruction which overwhelms the virgin daughter of my people, over her incurable wound.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you really cast Judah off? Is Zion loathsome to you? Why have you struck us a blow that cannot be healed? We wait for peace, to no avail; for a time of healing, but terror comes instead.

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead, no healer there? Why does new flesh not grow over the wound of the daughter of my people?

Jeremiah 9:18

The sound of the dirge is heard from Zion: We are ruined and greatly ashamed; We have left the land, given up our dwellings!

Lamentations 1:12

Come, all who pass by the way, pay attention and see: Is there any pain like my pain, which has been ruthlessly inflicted upon me, With which the Lord has tormented me on the day of his blazing wrath?

Ezekiel 32:31

When Pharaoh sees them, he will be consoled on behalf of all his hordes, slain by the sword— Pharaoh and all his army— oracle of the Lord God.

Daniel 9:12

He fulfilled the words he spoke against us and against those who ruled us, by bringing upon us an evil—no evil so great has happened under heaven as happened in Jerusalem.