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Lamentations 4:1
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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
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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 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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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 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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Lamentations 4:7
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Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were
whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was
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 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. |
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Lamentations 4:10
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The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their
own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
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Lamentations 4:11
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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. |
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Lamentations 4:12
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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. |
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Lamentations 4:13
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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, |
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Lamentations 4:14
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They 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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Lamentations 4:15
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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. |
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Lamentations 4:16
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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. |
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Lamentations 4:17
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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. |
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Lamentations 4:18
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They hunt our steps, 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 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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Lamentations 4:20
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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. |
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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 also shall pass through unto thee: 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 discover thy sins. |
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