Lamentations:4:9-22
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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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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 ,
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 .