Read Lamentations 4

World English Bible · 22 verses

1. ¹ How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ Even the jackals offer their breast. They nurse their young ones. But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment. No hands were laid on her.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ Her nobles were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was like sapphire.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like wood.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through, for lack of the fruits of the field.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ Yahweh has accomplished his wrath. He has poured out his fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² The kings of the earth didn’t believe, neither did all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ 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 middle of her.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, So that men can’t touch their garments.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ “Go away!” they cried to them. “Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, “They can’t live here any more.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ Yahweh’s anger has scattered them. He will not pay attention to them any more. They didn’t respect the persons of the priests. They didn’t favor the elders.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ They hunt our steps, so that we can’t go in our streets. Our end is near. Our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky. They chased us on the mountains. They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, who dwells in the land of Uz. The cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken, and will make yourself naked.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
22. ²² 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org