How shall I console 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 ruin is spread wide as the sea; Who can heal you?

耶路撒冷的民哪，我可用什么向你证明呢？我可用什么与你相比呢？锡安的民哪，我可拿什么和你比较，好安慰你呢？因为你的裂口大如海，谁能医治你呢？

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耶路撒冷啊，我可用什么向你证明呢？我可用什么与你相比呢？少女锡安哪，我拿什么和你比较，好安慰你呢？因你的裂伤大如海；谁能医治你呢？

耶路撒冷啊，我该说什么呢？谁能与你的苦难相比呢？锡安啊，我用什么话语才能安慰你呢？你的伤口深如海洋，谁能医治你呢？

耶路撒冷的居民哪，我怎样向你说明呢？用什么与你比较呢？锡安的居民哪，我们用什么跟你相比，好安慰你呢？你的裂口像海那样大，谁能医治你呢？

耶路撒冷的民哪，我可用甚麼向你證明呢？我可用甚麼與你相比呢？錫安的民哪，我可拿甚麼和你比較，好安慰你呢？因為你的裂口大如海，誰能醫治你呢？

耶路撒冷啊，我可用甚麼向你證明呢？我可用甚麼與你相比呢？少女錫安哪，我拿甚麼和你比較，好安慰你呢？因你的裂傷大如海；誰能醫治你呢？

耶路撒冷啊，我可用甚麼向你證明呢？我可用甚麼與你相比呢？少女錫安哪，我拿甚麼和你比較，好安慰你呢？因你的裂傷大如海；誰能醫治你呢？

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耶路撒冷的居民哪，我怎樣向你說明呢？用甚麼與你比較呢？錫安的居民哪，我們用甚麼跟你相比，好安慰你呢？你的裂口像海那樣大，誰能醫治你呢？

耶路撒冷小姐啊，我可用甚麼與你並列？用甚麼跟你相比呢？錫安人民哪，我可拿甚麼跟你比較，好安慰你呢？你的裂口像海那麼大，誰能醫治你呢？

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耶路撒冷之民、郇邑之女、爾之禍患、大若滄海、孰能醫爾兮、予將何詞何譬、用慰爾心矣。

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What can I say for you? With what can I compare you, Daughter Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may comfort you, Virgin Daughter Zion? Your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you?

City of Jerusalem, what can I say about you? What can I compare you to? People of Zion, what are you like? I want to comfort you. Your wound is as deep as the ocean. Who can heal you?

What can I say for you, to what compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is vast as the sea; who can heal you?

What can I say about you? Who has ever seen such sorrow? O daughter of Jerusalem, to what can I compare your anguish? O virgin daughter of Zion, how can I comfort you? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you?

What can I say on your behalf? What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem? What can I liken you to, so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion? For your ruin is as vast as the sea. Who can heal you?

How shall I admonish you? What shall I compare to you, Daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I liken to you as I comfort you, Virgin daughter of Zion? For your collapse is as vast as the sea; Who can heal you?

What shall I testify unto thee? what shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

What can I say on your behalf? What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem? What can I liken you to, so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion? For your ruin is as vast as the sea. Who can heal you?

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?

With what can I equate you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter Jerusalem? To what can I liken you so that I might comfort you, O Virgin Daughter Zion? Your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you?נ( Nun)

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?

“ Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold and see If there is any sorrow like my sorrow, Which has been brought on me, Which the Lord has inflicted In the day of His fierce anger.

“ For thus says the Lord:‘ Your affliction is incurable, Your wound is severe.There is no one to plead your cause, That you may be bound up; You have no healing medicines.All your lovers have forgotten you; They do not seek you; For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, With the chastisement of a cruel one, For the multitude of your iniquities, Because your sins have increased.Why do you cry about your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable. Because of the multitude of your iniquities, Because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.

“ Therefore you shall say this word to them:‘ Let my eyes flow with tears night and day, And let them not cease; For the virgin daughter of my people Has been broken with a mighty stroke, with a very severe blow.

Is there no balm in Gilead, Is there no physician there? Why then is there no recovery For the health of the daughter of my people?

So David went to Baal Perazim, and David defeated them there; and he said,“ The Lord has broken through my enemies before me, like a breakthrough of water.” Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

You have made the earth tremble; You have broken it; Heal its breaches, for it is shaking.

And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.

“ Therefore thus says the Lord God:‘ Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed. Wail for her! Take balm for her pain; Perhaps she may be healed.We would have healed Babylon, But she is not healed. Forsake her, and let us go everyone to his own country; For her judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up to the skies.

this is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning him:“ The virgin, the daughter of Zion, Has despised you, laughed you to scorn; The daughter of Jerusalem Has shaken her head behind your back!