Lamentations:4:1-13
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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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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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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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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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They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets :
they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills .
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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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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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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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They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger ra #
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for these pine away ,
stricken through for want of the fruits of the field .
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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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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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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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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 ,