Thematic Bible
Lamentations 4:1 (show verse)
How [the] gold has grown dim, the pure gold has changed. The stones of holiness are scattered at the head of every street.
Lamentations 4:2 (show verse)
The precious sons of Zion weighed against fine gold, how they are thought of as earthen vessels of clay, the work of the potter's hands.
Lamentations 4:3 (show verse)
Even the jackal bears the beast and nurses their cubs; [but] the daughter of my people has become ruthless, like ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations 4:4 (show verse)
The tongue of the nursling cleaves to its palate in thirst. Children beg [for] food, {no one lays it out before them}.
Lamentations 4:5 (show verse)
The ones who eat delicacies, they are ruined in the streets; the ones nurtured in purple lie [on] piles of trash.
Lamentations 4:6 (show verse)
The iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom; it was overthrown in a moment and no hands were laid on her.
Lamentations 4:7 (show verse)
Her princes were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; [their] bodies were more ruddy than rubies, sapphire their appearance.
Lamentations 4:8 (show verse)
[Now] their appearance is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones, it has become dry like wood.
Lamentations 4:9 (show verse)
Happier were [the] victims of [the] sword than the victims of famine; they have pined away, very hungry for the crops of my field.
Lamentations 4:10 (show verse)
[The] hands of compassionate women, have cooked their children; they became as something to eat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 4:11 (show verse)
Yahweh has completed his anger, he has poured out {his fierce anger}; he has kindled a fire in Zion, it consumed her foundations.
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Lamentations 4:12 (show verse)
[The] kings of [the] earth did not believe, and all [the] inhabitants of [the] world, that a foe and an enemy could enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
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Lamentations 4:13 (show verse)
Because of the sins of her prophets, the guilt of her priests, who shed blood in her midst, of righteous people.
Lamentations 4:14 (show verse)
They wander blindly in the streets; they were defiled with the blood, their clothes could not be touched.
Lamentations 4:15 (show verse)
"Go away! Defiled!" they shout to them. "Go away! Go away! Do not touch!" so they left, they left; it was said among the nations, "{They will no longer dwell with us}."
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Lamentations 4:16 (show verse)
The presence of Yahweh has scattered them, he will no longer watch over them; {they did not honor the priests}, they did not show mercy [to] elders.
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Lamentations 4:17 (show verse)
Still our eyes failed, [looking for] our help in vain; in our watchtower, we kept watch for a nation that could not save.
Lamentations 4:18 (show verse)
They hunted our steps, from walking in our streets; our end has come near, {our days are finished}, our end has come.
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Lamentations 4:19 (show verse)
Our pursuers were swifter than [the] eagles of [the] heavens; they chased us on the mountains, they have set an ambush for us in the desert.
Lamentations 4:20 (show verse)
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed one of Yahweh, was captured in their pits; of whom we said, "In his shadow we will live among the nations."
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Lamentations 4:21 (show verse)
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup will pass, you will become drunk and strip yourself bare.
Lamentations 4:22 (show verse)
The [punishment] of your iniquity is completed, O daughter of Zion, your exile will not continue; [but] he will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will reveal your sins.
No Themes for this verse.