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## Lamentations 2:11-12 in Context (Verses 8–15 KJV)
 
 [8 ](/kjv/lamentations/2/8) The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.*
 
 [9 ](/kjv/lamentations/2/9) Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes *are* among the Gentiles: the law *is* no *more;* her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
 
 [10 ](/kjv/lamentations/2/10) The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, *and* keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/lamentations/2/11) Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.*
 
 [12 ](/kjv/lamentations/2/12) They say to their mothers, Where *is* corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/lamentations/2/13) What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach *is* great like the sea: who can heal thee?
 
 [14 ](/kjv/lamentations/2/14) Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/lamentations/2/15) All that pass by clap *their* hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, *saying, Is* this the city that *men* call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?*
 
[Lamentations 1](/kjv/lamentations/1) [Lamentations 3](/kjv/lamentations/3)

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