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4:3-10
KJV
Lamentations
Chapter 4
Lamentations
4:3-10
KJV
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3
Even jackals offer the breast,
They nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people has proved herself cruel,
Like ostriches in the wilderness.
4
The tongue of the infant clings
To the roof of its mouth because of thirst;
The children ask for bread,
But no one breaks it for them.
5
Those who used to eat delicacies
Are made to tremble in the streets;
Those who were raised in crimson clothing
Embrace garbage heaps.
6
For the wrongdoing of the daughter of my people
Is greater than the sin of Sodom,
Which was overthrown as in a moment,
And no hands were turned toward her.
7
Her consecrated ones were purer than snow,
They shined more than milk;
They were more ruddy in body than pearls of coral,
Their form was like lapis lazuli.
8
Their appearance is darker than soot,
They are not recognized in the streets;
Their skin is shriveled on their bones,
It is dry, it has become like wood.
9
Better off are those killed by the sword
Than those killed by hunger;
For they waste away, stricken
By the lack of the produce of the field.
10
The hands of compassionate women
Boiled their own children;
They became food for them
Due to the destruction of the daughter of my people.
