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Lamentations 4 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:1 - Aleph. How will the gold be tarnished, and the fine silver changed! the sacred stones have been poured forth at the top of all the streets.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:2 - Beth. The precious sons of Zion, who were equalled in value with gold, how are they counted as earthen vessels, the works of the hands of the potter!
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:3 - Gimel. Nay, serpents have drawn out the breasts, they give suck to their young, the daughters of my people are incurably cruel, as an ostrich in a desert.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:4 - Daleth. The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst: the little children ask for bread, and there is none to break it to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:5 - He. They that feed on dainties are desolate in the streets: they that used to be nursed in scarlet have clothed themselves with dung.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:6 - Vau. And the iniquity of the daughter of my people has been increased beyond the iniquities of Sodoma, the city that was overthrown very suddenly, and none laboured against her with their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:7 - Zain. Her Nazarites were made purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were purified as with fire, their polishing was superior to sapphire stone.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:8 - Heth. Their countenance is become blacker than smoke; they are not known in the streets: their skin has cleaved to their bones; they are withered, they are become as a stick.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:9 - Teth. The slain with the sword were better than they that were slain with hunger: they have departed, pierced through from want of the fruits of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:10 - Jod. The hands of tender-hearted women have sodden their own children: they became meat for them in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:11 - Chaph. The Lord has accomplished his wrath; he has poured out his fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Sion, and it has devoured her foundations.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:12 - Lamed. The kings of the earth, even all that dwell in the world, believed not that an enemy and oppressor would enter through the gates of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:13 - Mem. For the sins of her prophets, and iniquities of her priests, who shed righteous blood in the midst of her,
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:14 - Nun. her watchmen staggered in the streets, they were defiled with blood in their weakness, they touched their raiment with it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15 - Samech. Depart ye from the unclean ones: call ye them: depart, depart, touch them not: for they are on fire, yea, they stagger: say ye among the nations, They shall no more sojourn there.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:16 - Ain. The presence of the Lord was their portion; but he will not again look upon them: they regarded not the person of the priests, they pitied not the prophets.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:17 - Phe. While we yet lived our eyes failed, while we looked in vain for our help. Tsade. We looked to a nation that could not save.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:18 - We have hunted for our little ones, that they should not walk in our streets. Koph. Our time has drawn nigh, our days are fulfilled, our time is come.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:19 - Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky, they flew on the mountains, in the wilderness they laid wait for us.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:20 - Rechs. The breath of our nostrils, our anointed Lord, was taken in their destructive snares, of whom we said, In his shadow we shall live among the Gentiles.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:21 - Chsen. Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Idumea, that dwellest in the land: yet the cup of the Lord shall pass through to thee: thou shalt be drunken, and pour forth.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:22 - Thau. O daughter of Sion, thine iniquity has come to an end; he shall no more carry thee captive: he has visited thine iniquities, O daughter of Edom; he has discovered thy sins.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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