¹³ What can I say on your behalf?
What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem?
What can I liken you to,
so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion?
For your ruin is as vast as the sea.
Who can heal you?^(A)

⁸ Daughter Zion^(A) is abandoned
like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a shack in a cucumber field,
like a besieged city.

Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,^(A)
walking with heads held high
and seductive eyes,
prancing along,
jingling their ankle bracelets,
¹⁷ the Lord will put scabs on the heads
of the daughters of Zion,
and the Lord will shave their foreheads bare.

² Stand up, shake the dust off yourself!
Take your seat, Jerusalem.
Remove the bonds^[a] from your neck,
captive Daughter Zion.’

¹¹ Look, the Lord has proclaimed
to the ends of the earth,
‘Say to Daughter Zion:^(A)
Look, your salvation is coming,
his wages are with him,^(B)
and his reward accompanies him.’