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Lamentations 4 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:1 - How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:2 - The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:3 - Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:4 - The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:5 - Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:6 - For the punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overturned suddenly without any hand falling on her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:7 - Her holy ones were cleaner than snow, they were whiter than milk, their bodies were redder than corals, their form was as the sapphire:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:8 - Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:9 - Those who have been put to the sword are better off than those whose death is caused by need of food; for these come to death slowly, burned up like the fruit of the field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:10 - The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:11 - The Lord has given full effect to his passion, he has let loose his burning wrath; he has made a fire in Zion, causing the destruction of its bases.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:12 - To the kings of the earth and to all the people of the world it did not seem possible that the attackers and the haters would go into the doors of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:13 - It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:14 - They are wandering like blind men in the streets, they are made unclean with blood, so that their robes may not be touched by men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15 - Away! unclean! they were crying out to them, Away! away! let there be no touching: when they went away in flight and wandering, men said among the nations, There is no further resting-place for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:16 - The face of the Lord has sent them in all directions; he will no longer take care of them: they had no respect for the priests, they gave no honour to the old men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:17 - Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:18 - They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; for our end has come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:19 - Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:20 - Our breath of life, he on whom the holy oil was put, was taken in their holes; of whom we said, Under his shade we will be living among the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:21 - Have joy and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz: the cup will be given to you in your turn, and you will be overcome with wine and your shame will be seen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:22 - The punishment of your evil-doing is complete, O daughter of Zion; never again will he take you away as a prisoner: he will give you the reward of your evil-doing, O daughter of Edom; he will let your sin be uncovered.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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