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4:1How the gold has become dim! / How the most pure gold has changed! / The stones of the sanctuary lie poured out / At the head of every street. Compare
4:2The precious sons of Zion, / Comparable to fine gold, / How they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, / The work of the hands of a potter. Compare
4:3Even the jackals present the breast; / They nurse their young ones; / But the daughter of my people has become cruel, / Like the ostriches in the wilderness. Compare
4:4The tongue of the sucking child cleaves / To the roof of his mouth for thirst; / The little ones ask for bread, / But no one breaks it for them. Compare
4:5Those who fed on delicacies / Are desolate in the streets; / Those who were brought up in scarlet / Embrace dung heaps. Compare
4:6And the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater / Than the sin of Sodom, / Which was overthrown as in a moment; / And no hands were laid on her. Compare
4:7Her nobles were purer than snow; / They were whiter than milk; / They were redder in body than corals; / Their figure was like sapphire. Compare
4:8Their visage is darker than black coal; / They are not recognized in the streets. / Their skin has shriveled up on their bones; / It has dried up; it has become like wood. Compare
4:9Those who were slain by the sword are better / Than those slain by famine; / For these pine away stricken through, / Because of the lack of the produce of the field. Compare
4:10The hands of compassionate women / Have boiled their own children; / They have become their food / In the destruction of the daughter of my people. Compare
4:11Jehovah has accomplished His wrath; / He has poured out His burning anger. / And He has kindled a fire in Zion, / And it has consumed its foundations. Compare
4:12The kings of the earth did not believe, / Neither did any of the inhabitants of the world, / That the adversary and the enemy would enter / Into the gates of Jerusalem. Compare
4:13It is because of the sins of her prophets, / And the iniquities of her priests, / Who have shed the blood of the righteous / In her midst. Compare
4:14They have wandered about blind in the streets; / They are polluted with blood; / So that men cannot touch / Their garments. Compare
4:15They cried out to them, Depart! Unclean! / Depart, depart; do not touch! / When they fled away and wandered about, men said among the nations, / They will no longer sojourn there. Compare
4:16The anger of Jehovah has scattered them; / He will no longer regard them. / They did not honor the priests, / Nor did they favor the elders. Compare
4:17Our eyes do yet fail, / Looking in vain for our help; / In our watching we watched / For a nation that could not save. Compare
4:18They hunted our steps, / So that we cannot walk in our streets; / Our end drew near; our days were fulfilled; / For our end had come. Compare
4:19Our pursuers were swifter / Than the eagles of heaven; / They hotly pursued us on the mountains; / They lay in wait for us in the wilderness. Compare
4:20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, / Has been captured in their pits, / Of whom we said, Under his shadow / We will live among the nations. Compare
4:21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, / Who dwells in the land of Uz. / Yet the cup will pass through to you also; / You will become drunk and make yourself naked. Compare
4:22The punishment for your iniquity has been accomplished, O daughter of Zion; / He will no longer take you into exile. / But He will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; / He will uncover your sins. Compare
5:1Remember, O Jehovah, what has come upon us; / Look and see our reproach. Compare
5:2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, / Our houses to foreigners. Compare
5:3We are orphans without father; / Our mothers are like widows. Compare
5:4We have drunk our water for money; / Our wood comes to us at a price. Compare
5:5On our necks are our pursuers; / We are weary; we have no rest. Compare
5:6We have given our hand to Egypt / And to Assyria, so as to be satisfied with bread. Compare
5:7Our fathers sinned and they are not, / And we ourselves bear their iniquities. Compare
5:8Slaves rule over us; / There is no one to deliver us from their hand. Compare
5:9We get our bread at the risk of our lives / Because of the sword from the wilderness. Compare
5:10Our skin is black like an oven / Because of the burning heat of famine. Compare
5:11They have ravished the women in Zion, / The virgins in the cities of Judah. Compare
5:12Princes were hanged by them. / The faces of the elders were not honored. Compare
5:13The young men bore the mill, / And the young boys stumbled under the wood. Compare
5:14The old men have ceased from the gate, / The young men from their music. Compare
5:15The joy of our heart has ceased; / Our dance has been turned into mourning. Compare
5:16The crown has fallen from our head. / Woe to us! For we have sinned. Compare
5:17Because of this our heart is faint; / Because of these things our eyes are dim; Compare
5:18Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate - / Foxes rove in it. Compare
5:19You, O Jehovah, abide forever; / Your throne is from generation to generation. Compare
5:20Why do You forget us forever / And forsake us for so long a time? Compare
5:21Turn us back to You, O Jehovah, and we will be turned; / Renew our days as before. Compare
5:22Or have You utterly rejected us? / Are You exceedingly angry with us? Compare

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