Lamentations 2:14-16

International Children’s Bible

¹⁴ Your prophets saw visions about you.
    But they were false and worth nothing.
They did not expose your sins.
    They did not keep you from being captured.
The messages they preached to you were false.
    They fooled you.

¹⁵ All who pass by on the road
    clap their hands at you.
They make fun and shake their heads
    at Jerusalem.
They ask, “Is this the city that people called
    the most beautiful city,
    the happiest city on earth?”

¹⁶ All your enemies open their mouths
    to say things against you.
They make fun and grind their teeth in anger.
    They say, “We have swallowed her up.
This is the day we were waiting for.
    We have finally seen it happen.”