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| 4:1 |
How is the gold become dim! the most pure gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary poured out at the top of all the streets!
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| 4:2 |
The sons of Zion, so precious, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
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| 4:3 |
Even the jackals offer the breast, they give suck to their young; the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
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| 4:4 |
The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask bread, no man breaketh it unto them.
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| 4:5 |
They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dung-hills.
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| 4:6 |
And the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the reward of the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were violently laid upon her.
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| 4:7 |
Her Nazarites were purer than snow, whiter than milk; they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their figure was as sapphire.
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| 4:8 |
Their visage is darker than blackness, 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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| 4:9 |
The slain with the sword are happier than the slain with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
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| 4:10 |
The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.
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| 4:11 |
Jehovah hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath consumed the foundations thereof.
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| 4:12 |
The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
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| 4:13 |
[It is] for the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the righteous in the midst of her.
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| 4:14 |
They wandered about blind in the streets; they were polluted with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
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| 4:15 |
They cried unto them, Depart! Unclean! Depart! depart, touch not! When they fled away, and wandered about, it was said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [there].
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| 4:16 |
The face of Jehovah hath divided them; he will no more regard them. They respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the aged.
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| 4:17 |
Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save.
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| 4:18 |
They hunted our steps, that we could not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
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| 4:19 |
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens; they chased us hotly upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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| 4:20 |
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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| 4:21 |
Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: the cup shall pass also unto thee; thou shalt be drunken, and make thyself naked.
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| 4:22 |
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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