and began to shout ¹  when they saw the smoke from the fire that burned her up, ²  “Who is like the great city?”

and were crying out as they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What city is like the great city?’

as they watched the smoke from her burning and kept crying out: "Who is like the great city?"

and began to cry out [when they] saw the smoke of her burning, saying, "Who [is] like the great city?

When they see the smoke of her burning, they will exclaim, ‘Was there ever a city like this great city?’

and cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning, "What city was like the great city?"

and cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning, "What city was like the great city?"

as they saw the smoke of her burning, they cried out, “Was there ever a city like the great city?”

"and cried out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What is like this great city?’

And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What [city is] like unto this great city!

and began to shout ¹  when they saw the smoke from the fire that burned her up, ²  “Who is like the great city?”

¹ tn Here the imperfect ἔκραζον (ekrazon) has been translated ingressively.

² tn Grk “from the burning of her, saying.” For the translation “the smoke from the fire that burned her up,” see L&N 14.63. Here the participle λέγοντες (legontes, “saying”) has not been translated because it is redundant in contemporary English.