14. Your prophets provided you visionsof whitewashed illusion;They did not lay bare your guilt,in order to restore your fortunes;They saw for you only oraclesof empty deceit.
15. All who pass by on the road,clap their hands at you;They hiss and wag their headsover daughter Jerusalem:“Is this the city they used to callperfect in beauty and joy of all the earth?”
16. They open their mouths against you,all your enemies;They hiss and gnash their teeth,saying, “We have devoured her!How we have waited for this day—we have lived to see it!”
17. The Lord has done what he planned.He has fulfilled the threatDecreed from days of old,destroying without pity!He let the enemy gloat over youand exalted the horn of your foes.
18. Cry out to the Lord from your heart,wall of daughter Zion!Let your tears flow like a torrentday and night;Give yourself no rest,no relief for your eyes.
19. Rise up! Wail in the night,at the start of every watch;Pour out your heart like waterbefore the Lord;Lift up your hands to himfor the lives of your children,Who collapse from hungerat the corner of every street.
20. “Look, O Lord, and pay attention:to whom have you been so ruthless?Must women eat their own offspring,the very children they have borne?Are priest and prophet to be slainin the sanctuary of the Lord?
21. They lie on the ground in the streets,young and old alike;Both my young women and young menare cut down by the sword;You killed them on the day of your wrath,slaughtered without pity.
22. You summoned as to a feast dayterrors on every side;On the day of the Lord’s wrath,none survived or escaped.Those I have borne and nurtured,my enemy has utterly destroyed.”