14. Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you.They have not uncovered your iniquity,to reverse your captivity,but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.
15. All that pass by clap their hands at you.They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,“Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty,the joy of the whole earth’?”
16. All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you.They hiss and gnash their teeth.They say, “We have swallowed her up.Certainly this is the day that we looked for.We have found it.We have seen it.”
17. The Lord has done that which he planned.He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old.He has thrown down,and has not pitied.He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you.He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
18. Their heart cried to the Lord.O wall of the daughter of Zion,let tears run down like a river day and night.Give yourself no relief.Don’t let the your eyes rest.
19. Arise, cry out in the night,at the beginning of the watches!Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.Lift up your hands towards him for the life of your young children,who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
20. “Look, Lord, and see to whom you have done thus!Should the women eat their offspring,the children that they held and bounced on their knees?Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21. “The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets.My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword.You have killed them in the day of your anger.You have slaughtered, and not pitied.
22. “You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side.There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of the Lord’s anger.My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.