lesserot

lesserot@Lamentations:4:1 @ Oh how is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! how are the stones of the sanctuary poured out at the corners of every street.

lesserot@Lamentations:4:2 @ The precious sons of Zion, valued equal to pure gold, how are they now esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

lesserot@Lamentations:4:3 @ Even wild beasts offer the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

lesserot@Lamentations:4:4 @ The tongue of the suckling cleaveth to its palate by reason of thirst: babes ask for bread, there is not one to break it for them.

lesserot@Lamentations:4:5 @ Those that used to eat dainty food are desolate in the streets: they that were reared up on scarlet now embrace dunghills.

lesserot@Lamentations:4:6 @ For greater is the iniquity of the daughter of my people than the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as it were in a moment, and no human hands were laid on her.

lesserot@Lamentations:4:7 @ Her crowned princes were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more brilliant in body than pearls, more than the sapphire, their countenance:

lesserot@Lamentations:4:8 @ Darker than black is now their visage; they are not to be recognized in the streets: their skin is shriveled fast upon their bones; it is dry, it is become like wood.

lesserot@Lamentations:4:9 @ Happier are those slain by the sword than those slain by hunger; for those poured forth their blood, being pierced through, without the fruits of the field.

lesserot@Lamentations:4:10 @ The hands of merciful women cooked their own children: they became food unto them in the downfall of the daughter of my people.

lesserot@Lamentations:4:11 @ The Lord hath let loose all his fury: he hath poured out the fierceness of his anger: and he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured her foundations.

lesserot@Lamentations:4:12 @ The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not believe that an adversary or an enemy could ever enter within the gates of Jerusalem.

lesserot@Lamentations:4:13 @ because of the sins of her prophets, the iniquities of her priests, that had shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.

lesserot@Lamentations:4:14 @ They wandered about blindly in the streets, they became defiled with blood; so that men were not able to touch their garments.

lesserot@Lamentations:4:15 @ Depart, ye unclean, they called out unto them: depart, depart, touch not. So they flee away and also wander about: men say among the nations, They shall no more sojourn there.

lesserot@Lamentations:4:16 @ The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he will no more look at them: the faces of the priests they respected not, and the elders they spared not.

lesserot@Lamentations:4:17 @ Even now our eyes anxiously wait for our valueless help: in our waiting have we waited for a nation that cannot help.

lesserot@Lamentations:4:18 @ They hunt our steps, that we cannot walk in our streets: our end is near, our days are full: for our end is come.

lesserot@Lamentations:4:19 @ Swifter were our pursuers than the eagles of heaven: upon the mountains did they hotly follow us: in the wilderness did they lie in wait for us.

lesserot@Lamentations:4:20 @ The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was caught in their pits, he, of whom we said, Under his shadow shall we live among the nations.

lesserot@Lamentations:4:21 @ Be glad and rejoice, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: also unto thee shall the cup pass; thou wilt be drunken, and make thyself naked.

lesserot@Lamentations:4:22 @ Brought to an end is thy iniquity, O daughter of Zion; He will no more carry thee away into exile: He visiteth thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom; He layeth open thy sins.

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