The Bible, King James version, Book 25: Lamentations — John Shaqi
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The Bible, King James version, Book 25: Lamentations
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Bible. Lamentations
25:002:014 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and
they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy
captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of
banishment.
25:002:015 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?
25:002:016 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.
25:002:017 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.
25:002:018 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.
25:002:019 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.
25:002:020 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?
25:002:021 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.
25:002:022 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so
that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained:
those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy
consumed.
25:003:001 I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his
wrath.
25:003:002 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into
light.
25:003:003 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me
all the day.
25:003:004 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my
bones.
25:003:005 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and
travail.
25:003:006 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
25:003:007 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made
my chain heavy.
25:003:008 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
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