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Lamentations 4:1 Lamentations 4:2 Lamentations 4:3 Lamentations 4:4 Lamentations 4:5 Lamentations 4:6 Lamentations 4:7 Lamentations 4:8 Lamentations 4:9 Lamentations 4:10 Lamentations 4:11 Lamentations 4:12 Lamentations 4:13 Lamentations 4:14 Lamentations 4:15 Lamentations 4:16 Lamentations 4:17 Lamentations 4:18 Lamentations 4:19 Lamentations 4:20 Lamentations 4:21 Lamentations 4:22
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Lamentations 4:1 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:1 (ASV)
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.
Lamentations 4:2 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:2 (ASV)
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
Lamentations 4:3 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:3 (ASV)
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.
Lamentations 4:4 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:4 (ASV)
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.
Lamentations 4:5 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:5 (ASV)
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Lamentations 4:6 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:6 (ASV)
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 upon her.
Lamentations 4:7 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:7 (ASV)
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.
Lamentations 4:8 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:8 (ASV)
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.
Lamentations 4:9 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:9 (ASV)
They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
Lamentations 4:10 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:10 (ASV)
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 4:11 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:11 (ASV)
Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger; And he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured the foundations thereof.
Lamentations 4:12 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:12 (ASV)
The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
Lamentations 4:13 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:13 (ASV)
`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.
Lamentations 4:14 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:14 (ASV)
They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments.
Lamentations 4:15 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:15 (ASV)
Depart ye, they cried unto them, Unclean! depart, depart, touch not! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn `here'.
Lamentations 4:16 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:16 (ASV)
The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; he will no more regard them: They respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.
Lamentations 4:17 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:17 (ASV)
Our eyes do yet fail `in looking' for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
Lamentations 4:18 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:18 (ASV)
They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
Lamentations 4:19 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:19 (ASV)
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Lamentations 4:20 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:20 (ASV)
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.
Lamentations 4:21 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:21 (ASV)
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through unto thee also; thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
Lamentations 4:22 ASV Bible Study

Lamentations 4:22 (ASV)
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 uncover thy sins.
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