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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../lamentations/3.htm" title="Lamentations 3">◄</a> Lamentations 4 <a href="../lamentations/5.htm" title="Lamentations 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><div align="center"><p class="acrostic">א</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>How is the gold become dim!</div><div class="po2">How is the most fine gold changed!</div><div class="po2">The hallowed stones are poured out</div><div class="po2">At the head of every street.</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">ב</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The precious sons of Zion,</div><div class="po2">Comparable to fine gold,</div><div class="po2">How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers,</div><div class="po2">The work of the hands of the potter!</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">ג</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Even the jackals draw out the breast,</div><div class="po2">They give suck to their young ones;</div><div class="po2">The daughter of my people is become cruel,</div><div class="po2">Like the ostriches in the wilderness.</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">ד</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth</div><div class="po2">To the roof of his mouth for thirst;</div><div class="po2">The young children ask bread,</div><div class="po2">And none breaketh it unto them.</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">ה</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They that did feed on dainties</div><div class="po2">Are desolate in the streets;</div><div class="po2">They that were brought up in scarlet</div><div class="po2">Embrace dunghills.</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">ו</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater</div><div class="po2">Than the sin of Sodom,</div><div class="po2">That was overthrown as in a moment,</div><div class="po2">And no hands fell upon her.</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">ז</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Her princes were purer than snow,</div><div class="po2">They were whiter than milk,</div><div class="po2">They were more ruddy in body than rubies,</div><div class="po2">Their polishing was as of sapphire;</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">ח</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Their visage is blacker than a coal;</div><div class="po2">They are not known in the streets;</div><div class="po2">Their skin is shrivelled upon their bones;</div><div class="po2">It is withered, it is become like a stick.</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">ט</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>They that are slain with the sword are better</div><div class="po2">Than they that are slain with hunger;</div><div class="po2">For these pine away, stricken through,</div><div class="po2">For want of the fruits of the field.</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">י</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The hands of women full of compassion</div><div class="po2">Have sodden their own children;</div><div class="po2">They were their food</div><div class="po2">In the destruction of the daughter of my people.</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">כ</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The LORD hath accomplished His fury,</div><div class="po2">He hath poured out His fierce anger;</div><div class="po2">And He hath kindled a fire in Zion,</div><div class="po2">Which hath devoured the foundations thereof.</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">ל</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The kings of the earth believed not,</div><div class="po2">Neither all the inhabitants of the world,</div><div class="po2">That the adversary and the enemy would enter</div><div class="po2">Into the gates of Jerusalem.</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">מ</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>It is because of the sins of her prophets,</div><div class="po2">And the iniquities of her priests,</div><div class="po2">That have shed the blood of the just</div><div class="po2">In the midst of her.</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">נ</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They wander as blind men in the streets,</div><div class="po2">They are polluted with blood,</div><div class="po2">So that men cannot</div><div class="po2">Touch their garments.</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">ס</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>‘Depart ye! unclean!’ men cried unto them,</div><div class="po2">‘Depart, depart, touch not’;</div><div class="po2">Yea, they fled away and wandered;</div><div class="po2">Men said among the nations:</div><div class="po2">‘They shall no more sojourn here.’</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">פ</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The anger of the LORD hath divided them;</div><div class="po2">He will no more regard them;</div><div class="po2">They respected not the persons of the priests,</div><div class="po2">They were not gracious unto the elders.</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">ע</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>As for us, our eyes do yet fail</div><div class="po2">For our vain help;</div><div class="po2">In our watching we have watched</div><div class="po2">For a nation that could not save.</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">צ</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They hunt our steps,</div><div class="po2">That we cannot go in our broad places;</div><div class="po2">Our end is near, our days are fulfilled;</div><div class="po2">For our end is come.</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">ק</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Our pursuers were swifter</div><div class="po2">Than the eagles of the heaven;</div><div class="po2">They chased us upon the mountains,</div><div class="po2">They lay in wait for us in the wilderness.</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">ר</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD,</div><div class="po2">Was taken in their pits;</div><div class="po2">Of whom we said: ‘Under his shadow</div><div class="po2">We shall live among the nations.’</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">ש</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,</div><div class="po2">That dwellest in the land of Uz:</div><div class="po2">The cup shall pass over unto thee also;</div><div class="po2">Thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.</div> <div align="center"><p class="acrostic">ת</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion,</div><div class="po2">He will no more carry thee away into captivity;</div><div class="po2">He will punish thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom,</div><div class="po2">He will uncover thy sins.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../lamentations/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Lamentations 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Lamentations 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a 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