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Lamentations 4

  1. 1How 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.
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  2. 2The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
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  3. 3Even 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.
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  4. 4The 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.
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  5. 5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
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  6. 6For 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.
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  7. 7Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more rosy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
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  8. 8Their 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.
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  9. 9They 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.
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  10. 10The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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  11. 11The 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.
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  12. 12The 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.
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  13. 13For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
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  14. 14They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
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  15. 15They 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.
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  16. 16The 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.
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  17. 17As 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.
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  18. 18They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end has come.
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  19. 19Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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  20. 20The 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.
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  21. 21Rejoice 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.
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  22. 22The punishment of yours iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: he will visit yours iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover your sins.
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