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LAMENTATIONS ยท Chapter 4
4:1 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the
stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
4:2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they
esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
4:3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their
young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches
in the wilderness.
4:4 The tongue of the nursing infant cleaves to the roof of his mouth
for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaks it unto them.
4:5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they
that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
4:6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people
is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown
as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
4:7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk,
they were more rosy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the
streets: their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it is become
like a stick.
4:9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be
slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for lack of the
fruits of the field.
4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children:
they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
4:11 The LORD has accomplished his fury; he has poured out his fierce
anger, and has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured the foundations
thereof.
4:12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world,
would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered
into the gates of Jerusalem.
4:13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests,
that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
4:14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted
themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
4:15 They cried unto them, Depart all of you; it is unclean; depart,
depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the
heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
4:16 The anger of the LORD has divided them; he will no more regard
them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not
the elders.
4:17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching
we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
4:18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end
is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end has come.
4:19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they
pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
4:20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken
in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the
heathen.
4:21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land
of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto you: you shall be drunken,
and shall make yourself naked.
4:22 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of
Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: he will visit your
iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover your sins.
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