| 4:1
| 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 street.
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| 4:2
| 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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| 4:3
| 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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| 4:4
| 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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| 4:5
| They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that
were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
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| 4:6
| 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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| 4:7
| 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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| 4:8
| 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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| 4:9
| 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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| 4:10
| 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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| 4:11
| 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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| 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 have entered into
the gates of Jerusalem.
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| 4:13
| 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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| 4:14
| 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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| 4:15
| 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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| 4:16
| 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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| 4:17
| 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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| 4:18
| 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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| 4:19
| 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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| 4:20
| 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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| 4:21
| 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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| 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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