The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[phil36]

Lamentations 4:2

The precious sons of Zion,
worth their weight in fine gold,
how they are regarded as earthen pots, the work of a potter's hands!

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Lamentations 4:3 (NIV)

Even jackals offer their breasts
to nurse their young,
but my people have become heartless
like ostriches in the desert.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Lamentations 4:4 (NIV)

Because of thirst the infant’s tongue
sticks to the roof of its mouth;
the children beg for bread,
but no one gives it to them.

 

[phil36]

Lamentations 4:5

Those who once feasted on delicacies
perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple embrace ash heaps.

 

[phil36]

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,
and no hands were wrung for her.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Lamentations 4:7 (BSB)
Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Lamentations 4:8 (BSB)
But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Lamentations 4:9 (CSB)

ט Teth

Those slain by the sword are better off than those slain by hunger,
who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Lamentations 4:10 (CSB)

י Yod

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children;
they became their food during the destruction of my dear people.

 

[LoveinChrist]

Lamentations 4:11 (NKJV)

The Lord has fulfilled His fury,
He has poured out His fierce anger.
He kindled a fire in Zion,
And it has devoured its foundations.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Lamentations 4:12 (BSB)
The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Lamentations 4:13 (BSB)
But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Lamentations 4:14 (KJV)
They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

 

[phil36]

Lamentations 4:15

Away! k Unclean!” people cried at them. “Away! Away! Do not touch!”
So they became fugitives and wanderers; people said among the nations, “They shall stay with us no longer.”

 

[phil36]

Lamentations 4:16

The LORD himself has scattered them; he will regard them no more;
no honor was shown to the priests,
no favor to the elders.

 

[LoveinChrist]

Lamentations 4:17 (NKJV)

Still our eyes failed us,
Watching vainly for our help;
In our watching we watched
For a nation that could not save us.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Lamentations 4:18 (NIV)

People stalked us at every step, so we could not walk in our streets.
Our end was near, our days were numbered, for our end had come.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Lamentations 4:19 (NIV)

Our pursuers were swifter than eagles in the sky; they chased us over the mountains and lay in wait for us in the desert.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Lamentations 4:20 (NKJV)
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, Was caught in their pits, Of whom we said, “Under his shadow We shall live among the nations.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Lamentations 4:21 (KJV)
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.