Lamentations 2:13 meaning and explanation
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?
Lamentations 2:13, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the poet of Lamentations, likely an eyewitness of Jerusalem's destruction by Babylon in 586 BC. Having described the city's ruin, he now turns to address "the Daughter of Jerusalem," a personification of the city and its people.
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