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Lamentations 4 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:1 - How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:2 - The precious sons of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold, how they are reckoned as earthen pots, the work of a potter's hands!

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:3 - Even the jackals give the breast and suckle their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:4 - The tongue of the nursling cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:5 - Those who feasted on dainties perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple lie on ash heaps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:6 - For the chastisement of the daughter of my people has been greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, no hand being laid on it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:7 - Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, the beauty of their form was like sapphire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:8 - Now their visage is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled upon their bones, it has become as dry as wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:9 - Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of hunger, who pined away, stricken by want of the fruits of the field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:10 - The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:11 - The LORD gave full vent to his wrath, he poured out his hot anger; and he kindled a fire in Zion, which consumed its foundations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:12 - The kings of the earth did not believe, or any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:13 - This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:14 - They wandered, blind, through the streets, so defiled with blood that none could touch their garments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15 - "Away! Unclean!" men cried at them; "Away! Away! Touch not!" So they became fugitives and wanderers; men said among the nations, "They shall stay with us no longer."

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:16 - The LORD himself has scattered them, he will regard them no more; no honor was shown to the priests, no favor to the elders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:17 - Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:18 - Men dogged our steps so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near; our days were numbered; for our end had come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:19 - Our pursuers were swifter than the vultures in the heavens; they chased us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:20 - The breath of our nostrils, the LORD's anointed, was taken in their pits, he of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the nations."

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:21 - Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, dweller in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup shall pass; you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:22 - The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished, he will keep you in exile no longer; but your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish, he will uncover your sins.
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

Language: English

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Lamentations Chapter 4 — Additional Translations:

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