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Lamentaciones 2:13
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¿Cómo he de amonestarte? ¿A qué te compararé, hija de Jerusalén? ¿A qué te igualaré al consolarte, virgen hija de Sion? Porque grande como el mar es tu ruina, ¿quién te podrá sanar?
�Qu� testigo te traer�, o a qui�n te har� semejante, hija de Jerusal�n? �A qui�n te comparar� para consolarte, oh virgen hija de Si�n? Porque tu quebrantamiento es grande como el mar; �qui�n te sanar�?
Mem : �Qu� testigo te traer�, o a qui�n te har� semejante, oh hija de Jerusal�n? �A qui�n te comparar� para consolarte, oh Virgen hija de Sion? Porque grande es tu quebrantamiento como el mar; �qui�n te medicinar�?
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
shall I take: Lamentations 1:12, Daniel 9:12
for: 2 Samuel 5:20, Psalms 60:2, Jeremiah 14:17, Ezekiel 26:3, Ezekiel 26:4
who can: Jeremiah 8:22, Jeremiah 30:12-15, Jeremiah 51:8, Jeremiah 51:9
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 19:21 - The virgin Isaiah 3:7 - healer Isaiah 30:26 - bindeth Isaiah 37:22 - The virgin Jeremiah 6:2 - daughter Jeremiah 14:19 - no healing Jeremiah 30:7 - so Jeremiah 31:4 - O Lamentations 1:9 - she had Ezekiel 13:5 - gaps Ezekiel 27:32 - What city Ezekiel 32:31 - shall be Amos 5:2 - virgin Nahum 3:7 - who Matthew 11:16 - whereunto Mark 4:30 - General Mark 13:19 - in those Luke 7:31 - Whereunto Luke 13:18 - Unto John 11:19 - to comfort
Gill's Notes on the Bible
What thing shall I take to witness for thee?.... What argument can be made use of? what proof or evidence can be given? what witnesses can be called to convince thee, and make it a clear case to time, that ever any people or nation was in such distress and calamity, what with sword, famine, pestilence, and captivity, as thou art?
what thing shall I liken thee to, O daughter of Jerusalem? what kingdom or nation ever suffered the like? no example can be given, no instance that comes up to it; not the Egyptians, when the ten plagues were inflicted on them; not the Canaanites, when conquered and drove out by Joshua; not the Philistines, Moabites, Edomites, and Syrians, when subdued by David; or any other people:
what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for this is one way that friends comfort the afflicted, by telling them that such an one's case was as bad, and worse, than theirs; and therefore bid them be of good heart; bear their affliction patiently; before long it will be over; but nothing of this kind could be said here; no, nor any hope given it would be otherwise; they could not say their case was like others, or that it was not desperate:
for thy breach [is] great like the sea; as large and as wide as that: Zion's troubles were a sea of trouble; her afflictions as numerous and as boisterous as the waves of the sea; and as salt, as disagreeable, and as intolerable, as the waters of it: or her breach was great, like the breach of the sea; when it overflows its banks, or breaks through its bounds, there is no stopping it, but it grows wider and wider:
who can heal thee? it was not in the power of man, in her own power, or of her allies, to recover her out of the hands of the enemy; to restore her civil or church state; her wound was incurable; none but God could be her physician. The Targum is,
"for thy breach is great as the greatness of the breach of the waves of the sea in the time of its tempest; and who is the physician that can heal thee of thy infirmity?''
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Equal - i. e. “compare.” Zion’s breach, i. e. her destruction, is measureless, like the ocean.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 13. What thing shall I take — Or, rather, as Dr. Blayney, "What shall I urge to thee?" How shall I comfort thee?
Thy breach is great like the sea — Thou hast a flood of afflictions, a sea of troubles, an ocean of miseries.
