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[how] is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.</p> <p class="acrostic">ב</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!</p> <p class="acrostic">ג</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.</p> <p class="acrostic">ד</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.</p> <p class="acrostic">ה</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.</p> <p class="acrostic">ו</p><p class="reg"><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 than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid on her.</p> <p class="acrostic">ז</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire.</p> <p class="acrostic">ח</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Their appearance is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin clings to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.</p> <p class="acrostic">ט</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.</p> <p class="acrostic">י</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.</p> <p class="acrostic">כ</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Yahweh has accomplished his wrath, he has poured out his fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.</p> <p class="acrostic">ל</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The kings of the earth didn't believe, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.</p> <p class="acrostic">מ</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>[It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.</p> <p class="acrostic">נ</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can't touch their garments.</p> <p class="acrostic">ס</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Depart! they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, don't touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more live [here].</p> <p class="acrostic">פ</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard them: They didn't respect the persons of the priests, they didn't favor the elders.</p> <p class="acrostic">ע</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.</p> <p class="acrostic">צ</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.</p> <p class="acrostic">ק</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.</p> <p class="acrostic">ר</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.</p> <p class="acrostic">ש</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through to you also; you shall be drunken, and shall make yourself naked.</p> <p class="acrostic">ת</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. 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