Lamentations:4:1-13
rsv@Lamentations:4:1 @ How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street.
rsv@Lamentations:4:2 @ The precious sons of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold, how they are reckoned as earthen pots, the work of a potter's hands!
rsv@Lamentations:4:3 @ Even the jackals give the breast and suckle their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
rsv@Lamentations:4:4 @ The tongue of the nursling cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.
rsv@Lamentations:4:5 @ Those who feasted on dainties perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple lie on ash heaps.
rsv@Lamentations:4:6 @ For the chastisement of the daughter of my people has been greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, no hand being laid on it.
rsv@Lamentations:4:7 @ Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, the beauty of their form was like sapphire.
rsv@Lamentations:4:8 @ Now their visage is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled upon their bones, it has become as dry as wood.
rsv@Lamentations:4:9 @ Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of hunger, who pined away, stricken by want of the fruits of the field.
rsv@Lamentations:4:10 @ The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
rsv@Lamentations:4:11 @ The LORD gave full vent to his wrath, he poured out his hot anger; and he kindled a fire in Zion, which consumed its foundations.
rsv@Lamentations:4:12 @ The kings of the earth did not believe, or any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
rsv@Lamentations:4:13 @ This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.
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