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Lamentations 2:13

What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?

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ASV

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?

KJV

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?

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21 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
מָֽה־mah-what?H4100 →
אֲעִידֵ֞ךְ'a.'i.Dekhwill I testify for youH5749 →
מָ֣הmahwhat?H4100 →
אֲדַמֶּה־'a.da.meh-will I likenH1819 →
לָּ֗ךְLakhto you
הַבַּת֙ha.BatO daughter ofH1323 →
יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔םye.Ru.sha.LimJerusalemH3389 →
מָ֤הmahwhat?H4100 →
אַשְׁוֶה־'ash.veh-will I make equalH7737 →
לָּךְ֙loKhto you
וַאֲנַֽחֲמֵ֔ךְva.'a.na.cha.Mekhso I may comfort youH5162 →
בְּתוּלַ֖תbe.tu.LatO virgin ofH1330 →
בַּת־bat-[the] daughter ofH1323 →
צִיּ֑וֹןtzi.YonZionH6726 →
כִּֽי־ki-forH3588 →
גָד֥וֹלga.Dol[is] greatH1419 →
כַּיָּ֛םkai.Yamlike the seaH3220 →
שִׁבְרֵ֖ךְshiv.Rekhbrokenness yourH7667 →
מִ֥יmiwho?H4310 →
יִרְפָּא־yir.pa'-will he healH7495 →
לָֽךְ׃ סLakh<to> you

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2 Kings 19:21This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.Lamentations 1:12Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?Isaiah 30:26The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.Matthew 11:16To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:2 Samuel 5:20So David went to Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a bursting flood, the LORD has burst out against my enemies before me.” So he called that place Baal-perazim.Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?Jeremiah 30:12–15For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.Jeremiah 14:17You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.Jeremiah 31:4Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing.Mark 4:30Then He asked, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God? With what parable shall we present it?Nahum 3:7Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”Isaiah 37:22this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.Ezekiel 26:3–4therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.Jeremiah 51:8–9Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.Daniel 9:12You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.Psalms 60:2You have shaken the land and torn it open. Heal its fractures, for it is quaking.Jeremiah 14:19Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.Jeremiah 30:7How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.

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People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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