Thematic Bible
Lamentations 4:1 (show verse)
How tarnished the gold has become, the finest gold debased! Sacred stones have been scattered at every street corner.
Lamentations 4:2 (show verse)
Though the precious people of Zion were like fine gold, how they are valued like clay vessels, the handiwork of a potter!
Lamentations 4:3 (show verse)
Even wild animals nurse, suckling their young; but the women of my people are cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations 4:4 (show verse)
The nursing child's tongue cleaves to its palate from thirst. Young children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
Lamentations 4:5 (show verse)
Those who enjoyed delicacies lie desolate in the streets. Those who were reared wearing purple scavenge in piles of trash.
Lamentations 4:6 (show verse)
The guilt of my cherished people surpasses the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, without a hand to help her.
Lamentations 4:7 (show verse)
Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk. Their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their beards like the color of precious stones.
Asceticism » Practised by the nazarites
Famine » Described
Fraternity » Instances of » The nazarites, vows of
Milk » An animal secretion, of a white color
Nazarite » Character of
Nazarites » Esteemed pure
Precious stones » Mentioned in scripture » Ruby
Snow » A symbol of whiteness
Snow » Figurative » Of purity
Famine » Described
Fraternity » Instances of » The nazarites, vows of
Milk » An animal secretion, of a white color
Nazarite » Character of
Nazarites » Esteemed pure
Precious stones » Mentioned in scripture » Ruby
Snow » A symbol of whiteness
Snow » Figurative » Of purity
Lamentations 4:8 (show verse)
Now their faces are blacker than coal; they are unrecognized in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones; it has become dry like a stick.
Lamentations 4:9 (show verse)
Those who die by the sword are better off than those who die from starvation, who slowly waste away like those pierced through for lack of food from the fields.
Lamentations 4:10 (show verse)
With their own hands, compassionate women boil their own children they become their food when my beloved people were destroyed.
Lamentations 4:11 (show verse)
The LORD has exhausted his wrath, pouring out his fierce anger. He kindled a fire in Zion, consuming its foundations.
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Lamentations 4:12 (show verse)
None of the kings of the earth would have believed, nor the world's inhabitants, that the adversary and the enemy could have breached the gates of Jerusalem.
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Lamentations 4:13 (show verse)
Due to the sins committed by her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests who shed in her midst, the blood of the righteous,
Lamentations 4:14 (show verse)
people stagger around in the streets like the blind, defiled by blood unclean so that no one is able to touch their clothing.
Lamentations 4:15 (show verse)
"Go away! Unclean!" they shouted at them. "Go away! Go away! Don't touch!" When they fled away and wandered, those among the nations decreed, "They cannot live here!"
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Lamentations 4:16 (show verse)
The LORD himself separated them; he will do nothing more for them. They did not respect their own priests; they did not honor their elders.
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Lamentations 4:17 (show verse)
Our eyes failed, searching in vain for hope; we kept watching and looking for a nation that would not help.
Lamentations 4:18 (show verse)
Our steps were closely stalked, so we couldn't travel on our own streets. Our end is near, our days are over; indeed, our end has come.
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Lamentations 4:19 (show verse)
Our pursuers were swifter than soaring eagles; they pursued us over the mountains, lying in wait for us in the wilderness.
Lamentations 4:20 (show verse)
The LORD's anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. About him we had said, "Under his protection we will survive among the nations."
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Lamentations 4:21 (show verse)
Celebrate and rejoice, you women of Edom, who live in the land of Uz. But to you the cup also will pass you will become drunk and stripped naked.
Lamentations 4:22 (show verse)
The punishment for your sin is complete, you women of Zion, and God will no longer exile you. He will punish your iniquity, you women of Edom, and he will expose your sins.
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