Commentaire sur Les Lamentations 2:13
מָֽה־אֲעִידֵ֞ךְ מָ֣ה אֲדַמֶּה־לָּ֗ךְ הַבַּת֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם מָ֤ה אַשְׁוֶה־לָּךְ֙ וַאֲנַֽחֲמֵ֔ךְ בְּתוּלַ֖ת בַּת־צִיּ֑וֹן כִּֽי־גָד֥וֹל כַּיָּ֛ם שִׁבְרֵ֖ךְ מִ֥י יִרְפָּא־לָֽךְ׃ (ס)
Qui te citerai-je comme exemple? Qui te comparerai-je, ô fille de Jérusalem? Qui mettrai-je en parallèle avec toi pour te consoler, vierge, fille de Sion? Car ton désastre est grand comme la mer: qui pourrait te guérir?
Rashi on Lamentations
What testimony can I offer you, to what can I compare you. To say to you, “Why do you wonder about your destruction? Did that not happen to such and such a nation, just like [it happened] you?”34I.e., there is no other nation that suffered a calamity equal to yours.
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Rashi on Lamentations
To what can I liken you to console you. When trouble befalls a person, [people] say to him, “This also happened to so and so,” as a consolation for him.
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