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The Holy Bible (King James Version) • The Old Testament • Lamentations

Chapter 4

Lamentations 4:1

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How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

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Lamentations 4:2

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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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Lamentations 4:3

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Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

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Lamentations 4:4

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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 unto them.

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Lamentations 4:5

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They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

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Lamentations 4:6

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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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Lamentations 4:7

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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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Lamentations 4:8

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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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Lamentations 4:9

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They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

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Lamentations 4:10

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The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Lamentations 4:11

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The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

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Lamentations 4:12

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The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

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Lamentations 4:13

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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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Lamentations 4:14

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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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Lamentations 4:15

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They cried unto 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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Lamentations 4:16

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The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.

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Lamentations 4:17

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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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Lamentations 4:18

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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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Lamentations 4:19

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Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

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Lamentations 4:20

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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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Lamentations 4:21

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Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

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Lamentations 4:22

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The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.

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