The World English Bible (WEB): LamentationsAnonymous
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The World English Bible (WEB): Lamentations
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Bible. Lamentations
003:062 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device
against me all the day.
003:063 See you their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
003:064 You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to
the work of their hands.
003:065 You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
003:066 You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under
the heavens of Yahweh.
004:001 How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most pure gold changed!
The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head
of every street.
004:002 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are
they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands
of the potter!
004:003 Even the jackals 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.
004:004 The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth
for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks
it to them.
004:005 Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets:
Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
004:006 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater
than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment,
and no hands were laid on her.
004:007 Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk;
They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing
was as of sapphire.
004:008 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known
in the streets: Their skin cleaves to their bones;
it is withered, it is become like a stick.
004:009 Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who
are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through,
for want of the fruits of the field.
004:010 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children;
They were their food in the destruction of the daughter
of my people.
004:011 Yahweh has accomplished his wrath, he has poured out his
fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured
the foundations of it.
004:012 The kings of the earth didn't believe, neither all the inhabitants
of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter
into the gates of Jerusalem.
004:013 [It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities
of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in
the midst of her.
004:014 They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted
with blood, So that men can't touch their garments.
004:015 Depart you, they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, don't touch!
When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations,
They shall no more sojourn [here].
004:016 The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard them:
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