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ULT LAM Chapter 4

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4 ALEPH

 How the gold is tarnished;

people have changed the good fine gold.

The stones of holiness are poured out

at the head of every street.

BETH

2 The precious sons of Zion,

weighed against fine gold,

how they are regarded as jars of clay,

the work of the hands of a potter!

GIMEL

3 Even jackals offer the breast;

they nurse their young.

But the daughter of my people has become cruel,

like ostriches in the wilderness.

DALETH

4 The tongue of the nursing infant sticks

to the roof of his mouth with thirst.

Children ask for bread;

there is no one breaking it for them.

5 The ones eating delicacies

are desolate in the streets.

The ones reared on scarlet

embrace garbage heaps.

WAW

6 And the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater

than the sin of Sodom,

which was overthrown as in a moment,

and hands did not tremble for her.

ZAYIN

7 Her Nazirites were purer than snow;

they were whiter than milk.

Their bones were more ruddy than corals;

their form was sapphire.

HETH

8 Their appearance is darker than soot;

they are not recognized in the streets.

Their skin has shriveled on their bones;

it has become dry as wood.

TETH

9 Better were the slain of the sword

than the slain of hunger,

for they waste away,

pierced for lack of the fruits of the field.

YODH

10 The hands of compassionate women

boiled their children;

they became food for them

in the breaking of the daughter of my people.

KAPH

11 Yahweh brought to completion his wrath;

he poured out the burning of his nose.

And he kindled a fire in Zion,

and it consumed her foundations.

LAMEDH

12 The kings of the earth did not believe,

nor any of the dwellers of the world,

that an adversary and an enemy

would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

MEM

13 Because of the sins of her prophets,

the iniquities of her priests,

the ones pouring out

the blood of the righteous in her midst.

NUN

14 They wandered blind in the streets;

they were defiled with blood,

so that none were able

to touch their garments.

SAMEKH

15 “Turn aside! Unclean!” they called to them.

“Turn aside! Turn aside! Do not touch!”

For they fled,

and they also wandered.

They said among the nations,

“They shall not continue to sojourn.”

AYIN

16 The face of Yahweh divided them;

he will not continue to look at them.

The face of the priests they did not lift up,

and the elders they did not show grace.

17 Our eyes still ended looking for

our help—a vapor.

In our watching, we watched for

a nation that does not save.

TSADHE

18 They hunted our steps

from walking in our open places.

Our end drew near;

our days are full,

for our end had come.

QOPH

19 Our pursuers were swifter

than the eagles of the heavens.

On the mountains they chased us;

in the wilderness they lay in wait for us.

RESH

20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh,

was captured in their pits,

of whom we said,

“In his shadow we will live among the nations.”

SIN

21 Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom,

dweller in the land of Uz.

Also to you the cup will pass;

you will become drunk and will make yourself naked.

TAW

22 Your iniquity is complete, daughter of Zion;

he will not continue to exile you.

He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom;

he will uncover your sins.

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