Lamentations 4

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¹ 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.	¹ How tarnished is the gold, how changed the noble metal; How the sacred stones lie strewn at every street corner!
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!	² Zion's precious sons, fine gold their counterpart, Now worth no more than earthen jars made by the hands of a potter!
³ 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.	³ Even the jackals bare their breasts and suckle their young; The daughter of my people has become as cruel as the ostrich in the desert.
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 unto them.	⁴ The tongue of the suckling cleaves to the roof of its mouth in thirst; The babes cry for food, but there is no one to give it to them.
⁵ They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.	⁵ Those accustomed to dainty food perish in the streets; Those brought up in purple now cling to the ash heaps.
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.	⁶ The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than the penalty of Sodom, Which was overthrown in an instant without the turning of a hand.
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:	⁷ Brighter than snow were her princes, whiter than milk, More ruddy than coral, more precious than sapphire.
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.	⁸ Now their appearance is blacker than soot, they are unrecognized on the streets; Their skin shrinks on their bones, as dry as wood.
⁹ 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.	⁹ Better for those who perish by the sword than for those who die of hunger, Who waste away, as though pierced through, lacking the fruits of the field!
¹⁰ The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.	¹⁰ The hands of compassionate women boiled their own children, To serve them as mourners' food in the downfall of the daughter of my people.
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 the foundations thereof.	¹¹ The LORD has spent his anger, poured out his blazing wrath; He has kindled a fire in Zion that has consumed her foundations.
¹² 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.	¹² The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any of the world's inhabitants, That enemy or foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
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,	¹³ Because of the sins of her prophets and the crimes of her priests, Who shed in her midst the blood of the just!--
¹⁴ They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.	¹⁴ They staggered blindly in the streets, soiled with blood, So that people could not touch even their garments:
¹⁵ 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.	¹⁵ "Away you unclean!" they cried to them, "Away, away, do not draw near!" If they left and wandered among the nations, nowhere could they remain.
¹⁶ 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.	¹⁶ The LORD himself has dispersed them, he regards them no more; He does not receive the priests with favor, nor show kindness to the elders.
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.	¹⁷ Our eyes ever wasted away, looking in vain for aid; From our watchtower we watched for a nation that could not save us.
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.	¹⁸ Men dogged our steps so that we could not walk in our streets; Our end drew near, and came; our time had expired.
¹⁹ Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.	¹⁹ Our pursuers were swifter than eagles in the air, They harassed us on the mountains and waylaid us in the desert.
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.	²⁰ The anointed one of the LORD, our breath of life, was caught in their snares, He in whose shadow we thought we could live on among the nations.
²¹ 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.	²¹ Though you rejoice and are glad, O daughter Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz, To you also shall the cup be passed; you shall become drunk and naked.
²² 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.	²² Your chastisement is completed, O daughter Zion, he will not prolong your exile; But your wickedness, O daughter Edom, he will punish, he will lay bare your sins.

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