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Lamentations 4 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:1 - How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:3 - Even the sea-monsters draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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 to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:5 - They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:9 - They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:10 - The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own 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 hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured her foundations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:12 - The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy would have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15 - They cried to 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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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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 favored not the elders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:19 - Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 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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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:21 - Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through to thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:22 - The punishment of thy iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will disclose thy sins.
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Lamentations Chapter 4 — Additional Translations:

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