Lamentations:2:11-22
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Mine eyes do fail with tears dim #
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my bowels are troubled ,
my liver is poured upon the earth ,
for the destruction of the daughter of my people ;
because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city .
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They say to their mothers ,
Where is corn and wine ?
when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city ,
when their soul was poured out into their mothers bosom .
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What thing shall I take to witness (
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for thee ?
what thing shall I liken to thee ,
O daughter of Jerusalem ?
what shall I equal to thee ,
that I may comfort thee ,
O virgin daughter of Zion ?
for thy breach is great like the sea :
who can heal thee ?
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Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee :
and they have not discovered thine iniquity ,
to turn away thy captivity sh @;
but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment .
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All that pass by clap their hands at thee ;
they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem ,
saying ,
Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty ,
The joy of the whole earth ?
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All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee :
they hiss and gnash the teeth :
they say ,
We have swallowed her up :
certainly this is the day that we looked for ;
we have found ,
we have seen it .
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The LORD hath done that which he had devised ;
he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old :
he hath thrown down ,
and hath not pitied :
and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee ,
he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries .
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Their heart cried unto the Lord ,
O wall of the daughter of Zion ,
let tears run down like a river day and night :
give thyself no rest ;
let not the apple of thine eye cease .
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Arise ,
cry out in the night :
in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord :
lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children ,
that faint for hunger in the top of every street .
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Behold ,
O LORD ,
and consider to whom thou hast done this .
Shall the women eat their fruit ,
and children of a span long ?
shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord ?
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The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets :
my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword ;
thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger ;
thou hast killed ,
and not pitied .
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Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about ,
so that in the day of the LORDS anger none escaped nor remained :
those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed .
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