Lamentations Chapter 4

• Lamentations 4:1
  Lamentations.
• Lamentations 4:2
  How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
• Lamentations 4:3
  The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
• Lamentations 4:4
  Even the jackals offer their breast. They nurse their young ones. But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness...
• Lamentations 4:5
  The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them.
• Lamentations 4:6
  Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.
• Lamentations 4:7
  For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment. No hands were laid on her.
• Lamentations 4:8
  Her nobles were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was like sapphire.
• Lamentations 4:9
  Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like wood.
• Lamentations 4:10
  Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through, for lack of the fruits of...
• Lamentations 4:11
  The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Lamentations 4:12
  The LORD has accomplished his wrath. He has poured out his fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.
• Lamentations 4:13
  The kings of the earth didn’t believe, neither did all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Je...
• Lamentations 4:14
  It is because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.
• Lamentations 4:15
  They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, So that men can’t touch their garments.
• Lamentations 4:16
  “Go away!” they cried to them. “Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, “They can’t live...
• Lamentations 4:17
  The LORD’s anger has scattered them. He will not pay attention to them any more. They didn’t respect the persons of the priests. They didn’t favor the...
• Lamentations 4:18
  Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
• Lamentations 4:19
  They hunt our steps, so that we can’t go in our streets. Our end is near. Our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.
• Lamentations 4:20
  Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky. They chased us on the mountains. They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.
• Lamentations 4:21
  The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.
• Lamentations 4:22
  Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, who dwells in the land of Uz. The cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken, and will make yoursel...
• Lamentations 4:23
  The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion. He will no more carry you away into captivity. He will visit your iniquity, daughte...