Lamentations 4 : 1 (MKJV)
How the gold has become dim; the fine gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
Lamentations 4 : 2 (MKJV)
The precious sons of Zion are weighed against pure gold; how they are counted as earthen vessels, the work of a potter's hand!
Lamentations 4 : 3 (MKJV)
Even the jackals draw out the breast; they suckle their young ones. The daughter of my people is cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations 4 : 4 (MKJV)
The suckling's tongue cleaves to his palate in thirst; the young children ask bread; there is no breaking to them.
Lamentations 4 : 5 (MKJV)
Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those reared in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Lamentations 4 : 6 (MKJV)
And the iniquity of the daughter of my people is heaped more than the sin of Sodom, overthrown as in a moment, and no hands spun on her.
Lamentations 4 : 7 (MKJV)
Her Nazarites were purer than snow, whiter than milk; they were redder of bone than corals; their cuttings as lapis lazuli, azure blue.
Lamentations 4 : 8 (MKJV)
Their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it is dried up; it has become like wood.
Lamentations 4 : 9 (MKJV)
Better are the ones slain by the sword than the ones slain by hunger; those who pine away, pierced because the fruits of my fields failed.
Lamentations 4 : 10 (MKJV)
The hands of the pitying women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the ruin of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 4 : 11 (MKJV)
Jehovah has fulfilled His fury; He has poured out His fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured its foundations.
Lamentations 4 : 12 (MKJV)
The kings of the earth, and all the people of the world, would not have believed that the foe and the hater would go into Jerusalem's gates.
Lamentations 4 : 13 (MKJV)
For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, shedding the blood of the just in her midst,
Lamentations 4 : 14 (MKJV)
they reeled blind in the streets; they are defiled with blood, so that not any can touch their clothes.
Lamentations 4 : 15 (MKJV)
They cried to them, Depart! Unclean! Depart, depart! Touch not! Indeed they fled and reeled; they said among the nations, They will not continue to live there.
Lamentations 4 : 16 (MKJV)
The face of Jehovah has shared them out; He will no longer look on them; they did not respect the persons of the priests; they did not favor the elders.
Lamentations 4 : 17 (MKJV)
While we are, our eyes fail, for our help is vain; in our watching we have watched for a nation; it does not save.
Lamentations 4 : 18 (MKJV)
They hunted our steps from going in our streets; our end was near, our days were fulfilled, for our end has come.
Lamentations 4 : 19 (MKJV)
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens; they pursued us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.
Lamentations 4 : 20 (MKJV)
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, In His shadow we shall live among the nations.
Lamentations 4 : 21 (MKJV)
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, who lives in the land of Uz. The cup also shall pass through unto you; you shall be drunken and stripped naked.
Lamentations 4 : 22 (MKJV)
The punishment of your iniquity is fulfilled, O daughter of Zion; He will exile you no more. He will visit your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.
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