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align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NASB 1995</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/lamentations/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><font color="#000000"><b><i>Distress of the Siege Described</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-1.htm" target="_top"><b>1</b></a></span>How dark the gold has become,<br> <i>How</i> the pure gold has changed!<br> The sacred stones are poured out<br> At the corner of every street.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>The precious sons of Zion,<br> Weighed against fine gold,<br> How they are regarded as earthen jars,<br> The work of a potter’s hands!<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>Even jackals offer the breast,<br> They nurse their young;<br> <i>But</i> the daughter of my people has become cruel<br> Like ostriches in the wilderness.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>The tongue of the infant cleaves<br> To the roof of its mouth because of thirst;<br> The little ones ask for bread,<br> <i>But</i> no one breaks <i>it</i> for them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>Those who ate delicacies<br> Are desolate in the streets;<br> Those reared in purple<br> Embrace ash pits.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>For the iniquity of the daughter of my people<br> Is greater than the sin of Sodom,<br> Which was overthrown as in a moment,<br> And no hands were turned toward her.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>Her consecrated ones were purer than snow,<br> They were whiter than milk;<br> They were more ruddy <i>in</i> body than corals,<br> Their polishing <i>was like</i> lapis lazuli.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Their appearance is blacker than soot,<br> They are not recognized in the streets;<br> Their skin is shriveled on their bones,<br> It is withered, it has become like wood.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Better are those slain with the sword<br> Than those slain with hunger;<br> For they pine away, being stricken<br> For lack of the fruits of the field.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>The hands of compassionate women<br> Boiled their own children;<br> They became food for them<br> Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> has accomplished His wrath,<br> He has poured out His fierce anger;<br> And He has kindled a fire in Zion<br> Which has consumed its foundations.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>The kings of the earth did not believe,<br> Nor <i>did</i> any of the inhabitants of the world,<br> That the adversary and the enemy<br> Could enter the gates of Jerusalem.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Because of the sins of her prophets<br> <i>And</i> the iniquities of her priests,<br> Who have shed in her midst<br> The blood of the righteous;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>They wandered, blind, in the streets;<br> They were defiled with blood<br> So that no one could touch their garments.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>“Depart! Unclean!” they cried of themselves.<br> “Depart, depart, do not touch!”<br> So they fled and wandered;<br> <i>Men</i> among the nations said,<br> “They shall not continue to dwell <i>with us.</i>”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>The presence of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has scattered them,<br> He will not continue to regard them;<br> They did not honor the priests,<br> They did not favor the elders.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Yet our eyes failed,<br> <i>Looking</i> for help was useless;<br> In our watching we have watched<br> For a nation that could not save.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>They hunted our steps<br> So that we could not walk in our streets;<br> Our end drew near,<br> Our days were finished<br> For our end had come.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Our pursuers were swifter<br> Than the eagles of the sky;<br> They chased us on the mountains,<br> They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>The breath of our nostrils, the L<font size="1">ORD’S</font> anointed,<br> Was captured in their pits,<br> Of whom we had said, “Under his shadow<br> We shall live among the nations.”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,<br> Who dwells in the land of Uz;<br> <i>But</i> the cup will come around to you as well,<br> You will become drunk and make yourself naked.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/4-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span><i>The punishment</i> of your iniquity has been completed, O daughter of Zion;<br> He will exile you no longer.<br> <i>But</i> He will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom;<br> He will expose your sins!<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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