Lamentations 2:13
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“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?”
מָה
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
שָׁוָה
will I make equal
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שָׁוָה
Set, put, be equal shavah; to set before; to make level. I have set the LORD always before me deliberately keeping Him in my direct line of sight at all times.
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שֶׁבֶר
brokenness/ your
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שֶׁבֶר
Break, ruin. Sheber. To shatter into pieces. A broken and contrite heart God will not despise. Brokenness before God is the pathway to wholeness.
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עוּד
will I testify for/ you
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עוּד
to duplicate or repeat; by implication, to protest, testify (as by reiteration); intensively, to encompass, restore (as a sort of reduplication)
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מִי
who?
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מִי
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
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רָפָא
will he heal
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רָפָא
To heal, to cure, to restore. Rapha. To mend and restore to wholeness. I am the LORD who heals you. God heals body soul and spirit.
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גָּדוֹל
is great
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גָּדוֹל
Great, large, elder. Gadol. God is gadol and greatly to be praised. His greatness is beyond all measure and beyond all comparison.
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בְּתוּלָה
O virgin of
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בְּתוּלָה
a virgin (from her privacy); sometimes (by continuation) a bride; also (figuratively) a city or state
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בַּת
the daughter of
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בַּת
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
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צִיּוֹן
Zion
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צִיּוֹן
Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem
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יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם
Jerusalem
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יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם
Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
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דָּמָה
will I liken
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דָּמָה
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
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