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Lamentations 4 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

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Distress of the Siege Described

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:1 - How dark the gold has become,
How the pure gold has changed!
The sacred stones are poured out
At the [fn]corner of every street.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:2 - The precious sons of Zion,
Weighed against fine gold,
How they are regarded as earthen jars,
The work of a potter’s hands!

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:3 - Even jackals offer the breast,
They nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people has become cruel
Like ostriches in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:4 - The tongue of the infant cleaves
To the roof of its mouth because of thirst;
The little ones ask for bread,
But no one breaks it for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:5 - Those who ate delicacies
Are desolate in the streets;
Those [fn]reared in purple
Embrace ash pits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:6 - For the [fn]iniquity of the daughter of my people
Is greater than the [fn]sin of Sodom,
Which was overthrown as in a moment,
And no hands were [fn]turned toward her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:7 - Her [fn]consecrated ones were purer than snow,
They were whiter than milk;
They were more ruddy in [fn]body than corals,
Their polishing was like [fn]lapis lazuli.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:8 - Their appearance is blacker than soot,
They are not recognized in the streets;
Their skin is shriveled on their bones,
It is withered, it has become like wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:9 - Better are those [fn]slain with the sword
Than those [fn]slain with hunger;
For they [fn]pine away, being stricken
For lack of the fruits of [fn]the field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:10 - The hands of compassionate women
Boiled their own children;
They became food for them
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:11 - The LORD has accomplished His wrath,
He has poured out His fierce anger;
And He has kindled a fire in Zion
Which has consumed its foundations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:12 - The kings of the earth did not believe,
Nor did any of the inhabitants of the world,
That the adversary and the enemy
Could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:13 - Because of the sins of her prophets
And the iniquities of her priests,
Who have shed in her midst
The blood of the righteous;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:14 - They wandered, blind, in the streets;
They were defiled with blood
So that no one could touch their garments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15 - “Depart! Unclean!” [fn]they cried of themselves.
“Depart, depart, do not touch!”
So they fled and wandered;
Men among the nations said,
“They shall not continue to dwell with us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:16 - The presence of the LORD has scattered them,
He will not continue to regard them;
They did not [fn]honor the priests,
They did not favor the elders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:17 - Yet our eyes failed,
Looking for [fn]help was useless;
In our watching we have watched
For a nation that could not save.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:18 - They hunted our steps
So that we could not walk in our streets;
Our end drew near,
Our days were [fn]finished
For our end had come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:19 - Our pursuers were swifter
Than the eagles of the sky;
They chased us on the mountains,
They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:20 - The breath of our nostrils, the LORD’S anointed,
Was captured in their pits,
Of whom we had said, “Under his shadow
We shall live among the nations.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:21 - Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,
Who dwells in the land of Uz;
But the cup will come around to you as well,
You will become drunk and make yourself naked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:22 - The punishment of your iniquity has been completed, O daughter of Zion;
He will exile you no longer.
But He will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom;
He will expose your sins!
See the NASB95 Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: head
Literally: established in crimson
Or, punishment for iniquity
Or, punishment for sin
Or, wrung over her
Or, Nazirites
Literally: bones
Hebrew: sappir
Literally: pierced
Literally: flow away
Literally: my fields
Or, they (men) cried to them
Literally: lift up the faces of
Literally: our help
Literally: full
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