We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed;
Forsake her and (A)let us each go to his own country,
For her judgment has (B)reached to heaven
And [a]towers up to the very skies.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:9 Lit is lifted

Ephraim’s Iniquity

When I (A)would heal Israel,
The iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered,
And the evil deeds of Samaria,
For they deal (B)falsely;
The thief enters in,
(C)Bandits raid outside,

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Lament over Jerusalem

37 (A)Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who (B)kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, (C)the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.

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