{Tet} Her ports are cast down to the ground, her bars are broken and smitten in sunder: her king and princes are carried away to the gentiles. They have neither law nor Prophets, nor yet any vision from the LORD.

מ MemWhat can I say on your behalf?
What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem?
What can I liken you to,
so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion?
For your ruin is as vast as the sea.
Who can heal you?

Your prophets have seen (imagined) for you
False and foolish visions;
And they have not exposed your wickedness
To restore you from captivity [by teaching you to repent],
But they have seen (imagined) and declared to you false and misleading oracles.

Good is Yahweh, to them who wait for him, to the soul that will seek him;

Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

The crown has fallen from our head [our honor is covered with dust]!
Woe to us, for we have sinned!