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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!
 

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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

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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

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Lamentations 4:5

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

phil36

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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.
 

Lucy-Pevensie

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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

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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.
 

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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.
 

phil36

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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.”
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.