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Lamentations 4:1
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How is the gold become dim! how is the most
pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every
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Lamentations 4:2
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The 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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Lamentations 4:3
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Even the jackals 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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Lamentations 4:4
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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. |
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Lamentations 4:5
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They that did feed delicately are desolate in
the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. |
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Lamentations 4:6
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For the iniquity of the daughter of my people
is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands
were laid upon her. |
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Lamentations 4:7
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Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter
than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of
sapphire. |
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Lamentations 4:8
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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. |
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Lamentations 4:9
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They that are slain with the sword are better
than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for
want of the fruits of the field. |
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Lamentations 4:10
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The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their
own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
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Lamentations 4:11
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Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath, he hath
poured out his fierce anger; And he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured
the foundations thereof. |
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Lamentations 4:12
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The kings of the earth believed not, neither
all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter
into the gates of Jerusalem. |
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Lamentations 4:13
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It is because of 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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Lamentations 4:14
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They wander as blind men in the streets, they
are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments. |
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Lamentations 4:15
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Depart ye, they cried unto them, Unclean! depart,
depart, touch not! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations,
They shall no more sojourn here . |
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Lamentations 4:16
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The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; he
will no more regard them: They respected not the persons of the priests, they
favored not the elders. |
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Lamentations 4:17
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Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain
help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save. |
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Lamentations 4:18
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They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in
our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. |
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Lamentations 4:19
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Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of
the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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Lamentations 4:20
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The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of
Jehovah, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live
among the nations. |
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Lamentations 4:21
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Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that
dwellest in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through unto thee also; thou shalt
be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. |
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Lamentations 4:22
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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 uncover thy sins. |
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