Lamentations Chapter 4
4:1 | How is the ![]() |
4:2 | The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine ![]() |
4:3 | 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. |
4:4 | The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask ![]() |
4:5 | They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. |
4:6 | 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. |
4:7 | Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than ![]() |
4:8 | 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. |
4:9 | [They that be] slain with the ![]() |
4:10 | The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their ![]() |
4:11 | 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. |
4:12 | The ![]() ![]() ![]() |
4:13 | 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, |
4:14 | They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their ![]() |
4:15 | 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]. |
4:16 | 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. |
4:17 | As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation [that] could not ![]() |
4:18 | They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our ![]() |
4:19 | Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. |
4:20 | 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. |
4:21 | 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. |
4:22 | 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. |