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LAM-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.
LAM-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!
LAM-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.
LAM-4:4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of
his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, [and] no man
breaketh [it] unto them.
LAM-4:5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the
streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
LAM-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.
LAM-4:7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter
than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their
polishing [was] of sapphire:
LAM-4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known
in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is
withered, it is become like a stick.
LAM-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 [want of] the fruits of the field.
LAM-4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own
children: they were their meat in the destruction of the
daughter of my people.
LAM-4:11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out
his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath
devoured the foundations thereof.
LAM-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.
LAM-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,
LAM-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.
LAM-4:15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; [it is] unclean;
depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered,
they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn [there].
LAM-4:16 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no
more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests,
they favoured not the elders.
LAM-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].
LAM-4:18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets:
our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
LAM-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.
LAM-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.
LAM-4:21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest
in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee:
thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
LAM-4:22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O
daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity:
he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will
discover thy sins.
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