<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1021133">Lamentations</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1021247">Chapter 4</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1021180">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1021270">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021248">1</a>. HOW is the gold become dim!  how is the most fine gold changed!  the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021249">2</a>. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021250">3</a>. Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021251">4</a>. The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021252">5</a>. They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021253">6</a>. For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021254">7</a>. Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021255">8</a>. Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021256">9</a>. They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021257">10</a>. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021258">11</a>. The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021259">12</a>. The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021260">13</a>. For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021261">14</a>. They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021262">15</a>. They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021263">16</a>. The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021264">17</a>. As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021265">18</a>. They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021266">19</a>. Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021267">20</a>. The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021268">21</a>. Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021269">22</a>. The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.</li>
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