Lamentations 4:1-22 - Zion Is Punished
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How the pure gold has changed!
The sacred stones are poured out
At the
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Weighed against fine gold,
How they are regarded as
The work of a potter’s hands!
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They nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people has become
Like
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To the roof of its mouth because of
The little ones
But no one breaks it for them.
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Are desolate in the streets;
Those
Embrace ash pits.
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Is greater than the
Which was
And no hands were
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They were whiter than milk;
They were more ruddy in
Their polishing was like
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They are not recognized in the streets;
Their
It is withered, it has become like wood.
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Than those
For they
For lack of the fruits of
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They became
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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He has poured out His fierce anger;
And He has
Which has consumed its foundations.
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Nor did any of
That the adversary and the enemy
Could
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And the iniquities of her priests,
Who have shed in her midst
The
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They were defiled with
So that no one could touch their
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“Depart, depart, do not touch!”
So they
Men among the nations said,
“They shall not continue to dwell with us.”
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He will not continue to regard them;
They did not
They did not favor the elders.
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Looking for
In our watching we have watched
For a
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So that we could not walk in our streets;
Our
Our days were
For our end had come.
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Than the eagles of the sky;
They chased us on the mountains,
They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.
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Was
Of whom we had said, “Under his
We shall live among the nations.”
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Who dwells in the land of Uz;
But the
You will become drunk and make yourself naked.
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He will exile you no longer.
But He
He will expose your sins!