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Lamentations, Chapter 4

1 How dark the gold has become,
How the pure gold has changed!
The sacred stones are poured out
At thea Lit headcorner of every street.
2 The precious sons of Zion,
Weighed against fine gold,
How they are regarded as earthen jars,
The work of a potter’s hands!
3 Even jackals offer the breast,
They nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people has become cruel
Like ostriches in the wilderness.
4 The tongue of the infant cleaves
To the roof of its mouth because of thirst;
The little ones ask for bread,
But no one breaks it for them.
5 Those who ate delicacies
Are desolate in the streets;
Thoseb Lit established in crimsonreared in purple
Embrace ash pits.
6 For thec Or punishment for iniquityiniquity of the daughter of my people
Is greater than thed Or punishment for sinsin of Sodom,
Which was overthrown as in a moment,
And no hands weree Or wrung over herturned toward her.
7 Herf Or Naziritesconsecrated ones were purer than snow,
They were whiter than milk;
They were more ruddy ing Lit bonesbody than corals,
Their polishing was likeh Heb sappirlapis lazuli.
8 Their appearance is blacker than soot,
They are not recognized in the streets;
Their skin is shriveled on their bones,
It is withered, it has become like wood.
9 Better are thosei Lit piercedslain with the sword
Than thosej Lit piercedslain with hunger;
For theyk Lit flow awaypine away, being stricken
For lack of the fruits ofl Lit my fieldsthe field.
10 The hands of compassionate women
Boiled their own children;
They became food for them
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11 The LORD has accomplished His wrath,
He has poured out His fierce anger;
And He has kindled a fire in Zion
Which has consumed its foundations.
12 The kings of the earth did not believe,
Nor did any of the inhabitants of the world,
That the adversary and the enemy
Could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
13 Because of the sins of her prophets
And the iniquities of her priests,
Who have shed in her midst
The blood of the righteous;
14 They wandered, blind, in the streets;
They were defiled with blood
So that no one could touch their garments.
15 “Depart! Unclean!”m Or they (men) cried to themthey cried of themselves.
“Depart, depart, do not touch!”
So they fled and wandered;
Men among the nations said,
“They shall not continue to dwell with us.”
16 The presence of the LORD has scattered them,
He will not continue to regard them;
They did notn Lit lift up the faces ofhonor the priests,
They did not favor the elders.
17 Yet our eyes failed,
Looking foro Lit our helphelp was useless;
In our watching we have watched
For a nation that could not save.
18 They hunted our steps
So that we could not walk in our streets;
Our end drew near,
Our days werep Lit fullfinished
For our end had come.
19 Our pursuers were swifter
Than the eagles of the sky;
They chased us on the mountains,
They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.
20 The breath of our nostrils, the LORD’S anointed,
Was captured in their pits,
Of whom we had said, “Under his shadow
We shall live among the nations.”
21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,
Who dwells in the land of Uz;
But the cup will come around to you as well,
You will become drunk and make yourself naked.
22 The punishment of your iniquity has been completed, O daughter of Zion;
He will exile you no longer.
But He will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom;
He will expose your sins!

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