Lamentations 2:13
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?

Young's Literal Translation
What do I testify [to] thee, what do I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What do I equal to thee, and I comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For great as a sea [is] thy breach, Who doth give healing to thee?

King James Bible
What thing shall I take to witness {08675;05749:08799} 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?

Hebrew
What
מָֽה־ (māh-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

can I say for you?
אֲעִידֵ֞ךְ (’ă·‘î·ḏêḵ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular | second person feminine singular
Strong's 5749: To duplicate, repeat, to protest, testify, to encompass, restore

To
לָּ֗ךְ (lāḵ)
Preposition | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew

what
מָ֣ה (māh)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

can I compare you,
אֲדַמֶּה־ (’ă·ḏam·meh-)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1819: To compare, to resemble, liken, consider

O daughter
הַבַּת֙ (hab·baṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 1323: A daughter

of Jerusalem?
יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם (yə·rū·šā·lim)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3389: Jerusalem -- probably 'foundation of peace', capital city of all Israel

To
לָּךְ֙ (lāḵ)
Preposition | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew

what
מָ֤ה (māh)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

can I liken you,
אַשְׁוֶה־ (’aš·weh-)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7737: To level, equalize, to resemble, to adjust

that I may console you,
וַאֲנַֽחֲמֵ֔ךְ (wa·’ă·na·ḥă·mêḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative if contextual - first person common singular | second person feminine singular
Strong's 5162: To sigh, breathe strongly, to be sorry, to pity, console, rue, to avenge

O virgin
בְּתוּלַ֖ת (bə·ṯū·laṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 1330: A virgin, sometimes, a bride

Daughter
בַּת־ (baṯ-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 1323: A daughter

of Zion?
צִיּ֑וֹן (ṣî·yō·wn)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 6726: Zion -- a mountain in Jerusalem, also a name for Jerusalem

For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

your wound
שִׁבְרֵ֖ךְ (šiḇ·rêḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 7667: A breaking, fracture, crushing, breach, crash

is as deep
גָד֥וֹל (ḡā·ḏō·wl)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent

as the sea.
כַּיָּ֛ם (kay·yām)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

Who
מִ֥י (mî)
Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

can ever heal you?
יִרְפָּא־ (yir·pā-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7495: To mend, to cure

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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