For this is what the Lord says:

Your injury is incurable;
your wound most severe.

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the people of the land had no food.

You are to speak this word to them:
Let my eyes overflow with tears;
day and night may they not stop,
for the virgin daughter of my people
has been destroyed by a great disaster,
an extremely severe wound.