Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Lamentations:
Chapter 4
1. HOW is
the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of
the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
2. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they
esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
3. Even the sea monsters 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.
4. The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for
thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
5. They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that
were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
6. For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is
greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as
in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
7. Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they
were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
8. Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the
streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is
become like a stick.
9. They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain
with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the
fruits of the field.
10. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they
were their meat in destruction of the daughter of my people.
11. The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce
anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the
foundations thereof.
12. The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would
not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered
into the gates of Jerusalem.
13. For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests,
that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
14. They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted
themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
15. They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart,
touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the
heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
16. The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard
them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not
the elders.
17. As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching
we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
18. They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is
near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
19. Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they
pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
20. The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in
their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the
heathen.
21. 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.
22. The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter
of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit
thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
Nov. 14 Daily
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