And they healed the breach of My people [imperfectly], making light [of it], and saying, Peace, peace, and where is peace?

At that time they shall say to this people and to Jerusalem, [There is] a spirit of error in the wilderness: the way of the daughter of My people is not to purity, nor to holiness.

Behold, [there is] a sound of the cry of the daughter of My people from a land afar off. Is not the Lord in Zion? Is there not a king there? Because they have provoked Me with their graven [images], and with strange vanities.

For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.

And is there no balm in Gilead, or is there no physician there? Why has not the healing of the daughter of my people taken place?

Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? Then would I weep for this my people day and night, [even] for the slain of the daughter of my people.

And you shall speak this word to them: Let your eyes shed tears day and night, and let them not cease; for the daughter of My people has been sorely bruised, and her plague is very grievous.

Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the breach of the daughter of my people.

CHAPH. My eyes have failed with tears, my heart is troubled, my glory is cast down to the ground, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; while the infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city.

My eye shall pour down torrents of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

GIMEL. Nay, serpents have drawn out the breasts, they give suck to their young, the daughters of my people are incurably cruel, as an ostrich in a desert.

VAU. And the iniquity of the daughter of my people has been increased beyond the iniquities of Sodom, [the city] that was overthrown very suddenly, and none labored against her [with their] hands.

JOD. The hands of tender hearted women have boiled their own children; they became meat for them in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

For these things gird yourselves with sackcloth and lament, and howl; for the anger of the Lord has not turned away from you.

And the slain of the Lord shall be in the day of the Lord from [one] end of the earth even to the [other] end of the earth. They shall not be buried; they shall be as dung on the face of the earth.

Howl, O you shepherds, and cry; lament, you rams of the flock: for your days have been completed for slaughter, and you shall fall as the choice rams.

Be amazed, be pained, you confident ones; strip, bare yourselves, gird your loins

And they shall wail over you with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them.

[This translation omits this verse.]

Therefore shall she lament and wail, she shall go barefooted, and [being] naked she shall make lamentation as [that] of serpents, and mourning as of the daughters of sirens.

You that are in Gath, exalt not yourselves, and you Enakim, do not rebuild from [the ruins of] the house in derision: sprinkle dust [in the place of] your laughter.

Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? Then would I weep for this my people day and night, [even] for the slain of the daughter of my people.

Take up a lamentation for the mountains, and a mournful dirge for the paths of the wilderness, for they are desolate from a lack of men; they heard not the sound of life from the birds of the sky, nor the cattle. They were amazed, they are gone.

Thus says the Lord, Call the mourning women, and let them come; and send to the wise women, and let them utter their voice;

For a voice of lamentation has been heard in Zion, How we have become wretched! We are greatly ashamed, for we have forsaken the land, and have abandoned our tabernacles!

For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants outside, and the young men from the streets.

But if you will not hear it, your soul shall weep in secret because of pride, and your eyes shall pour down tears, because the Lord's flock is sorely bruised.

And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and baldness, and for girding with sackcloth;

BETH. She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; and there is none of all her lovers to comfort her: all that were her friends have dealt deceitfully with her, they have become her enemies.

AIN. My eye has poured out water, because He that should comfort me, that should restore my soul, has been removed far from me. My sons have been destroyed, because the enemy has prevailed.

But they that escape among them shall be delivered, and shall be upon the mountains, and I will slay all [the rest], everyone for his iniquities.

And they shall gird themselves with sackcloth, and amazement shall cover them; and shame shall be upon them, [even] upon every face, and baldness upon every head.

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and compassion: and they shall look upon Me, because they have mocked Me, and they shall make lamentation for Him, as for a beloved [friend], and they shall grieve intensely, as for a firstborn son.

And when He came near the gate of the city, that behold, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother; and she was a widow. And many people from the city was with her.

Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter change into mourning and your joy into dejection.

Listen now, you rich, weep and howl at your miseries which are coming upon you!

For all the land is distressed. Suddenly [my] tabernacle is distressed, my curtains have been torn in two.

The ravagers have come to every passage in the wilderness: for the sword of the Lord will devour from one end of the land to the other- 8no flesh has any peace.

Their widows have been multiplied more than the sand of the sea. I have brought young men against the mother, [and] distress at noonday. I have suddenly cast trembling and anxiety upon her.

therefore shall this sin be to you as a wall suddenly falling when a strong city has been taken, of which the fall is very close at hand.