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LAM 4:1–4:22 ©

The Book of Lamentations 4

4O how the gold is tarnished; the pure gold has changed.

The holy stones are scattered at the corner of every street.

2The precious sons of Zion were weighed with fine gold.

O how they are regarded as clay jars, the work of potter’s hands!

3Even the jackals offer the breast; they nurse their cubs.

The daughter of my people are fierce like the ostriches in the wilderness.

4The tongue of the nursing baby sticks to the roof of his mouth with thirst.

The children ask those dispersing for food; there is none for them.

5Those eating the finest food are desolate in the streets.

Those attended with scarlet cloth embrace piles of garbage.

6The guilt of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom.

It was overthrown as a moment and no hands were wrung for her.

7Her Nazarites were more pure than snow; they were more white than milk.

Their bones were more ruddy than coral; their parts were sapphire.

8Blackness has darkened their form;

they are not recognized in the streets.

Their skin has shriveled on their bones;

it has become dry as wood.

9Those slain by the sword were happier than those slain by hunger,

those who slowly wasted away from the piercing of the field’s produce.

10The hands of compassionate women boiled their children;

they became for them a meal in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

11Yahweh brought to completion his wrath; he poured out his fierce anger.

And he kindled a fire in Zion that consumed her foundations.

12The kings of the earth did not believe,

nor any of the inhabitants of the world,

that the adversary and enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

13The sins of her prophets were more than the iniquities of her priests;

they poured out in her midst the blood of the righteous.

14They stumble blind in the streets.

They are defiled with blood.

There were none able to touch their clothes.

15“Away! Unclean!” they shouted at them. “Away! Away! Do not touch!”

So they fled, even stumbling. They said among the nations, “They shall not prolong the sojourn.”

16The face of Yahweh scattered them; he will not continue to watch over them.

The face of the priests will no longer rise up; the elders show no grace.

17In our waiting, our eyes closed in vain for our helper.

In our watchtowers, we looked to the nations. He did not rescue.

18They tracked our steps,

walking in our paths.

Our end drew near. Our days were fulfilled, for our end has come.

19Our pursuers became more swift than eagles of heaven.

They set us ablaze on the mountains; they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

20A breath of our nostrils, Yahweh’s anointed was captured in their pits;

of whom we said, “In his shadow, we will live among the nations.”

21Rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom,

who dwells in the land of Uz.

Against you also the cup will pass;

you will be drunk and go about naked.

22O Daughter of Zion, your guilt will finish;

he will not extend your exile.

He will visit your guilt, O Daughter of Edom;

he will uncover your sins.

LAM 4:1–4:22 ©

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