These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Lamentations 4
Tanakh 22 verses
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How is the gold become dim! How is the most fine gold changed! The hallowed stones are poured out At the head of every street.
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- 2 The precious sons of , Comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, The work of the hands of the potter!
- 3 Even the jackals draw out the breast, They give suck to their young ones; The daughter of my people is become cruel, Like the ostriches in the wilderness.
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The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth To the roof of his mouth for thirst; The young children ask bread, And none breaketh it unto them.
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- 5 They that did feed on dainties Are desolate in the streets; They that were brought up in scarlet Embrace dunghills.
- 6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater Than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, And no hands fell upon her.
- 7 Her princes were purer than snow, They were whiter than milk, They were more ruddy in body than rubies, Their polishing was as of sapphire;
- 8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; They are not known in the streets; Their skin is shrivelled upon their bones; It is withered, it is become like a stick.
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They that are slain with the sword are better Than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, For want of the fruits of the field.
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- 10 The hands of women full of compassion Have sodden their own children; They were their food In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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The hath accomplished His fury, He hath poured out His fierce anger; And He hath kindled a fire in , Which hath devoured the foundations thereof.
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Jeremiah 7:20 Ezekiel 22:31 Lamentations 2:17 Jeremiah 17:27 Jeremiah 15:1-4 Deuteronomy 32:21-25 Jeremiah 14:15-16 Jeremiah 21:14 Ezekiel 20:47-48 Jeremiah 24:8-10 Jeremiah 23:19-20 Jeremiah 9:9-11 Luke 21:22 Lamentations 2:8 Jeremiah 6:11-12 Lamentations 4:22 Jeremiah 13:14 Jeremiah 19:3-11 Daniel 9:12 Zechariah 1:6 -
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The kings of the earth believed not, Neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter Into the gates of .
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- 13 It is because of the sins of her prophets, And the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the of the just In the midst of her.
- 14 They wander as blind men in the streets, They are polluted with , So that men cannot Touch their garments.
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Depart ye! unclean!’ men cried unto them, ‘Depart, depart, touch not’; Yea, they fled away and wandered; Men said among the nations: ‘They shall no more sojourn here.’
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- 16 The anger of hath divided them; He will no more regard them; They respected not the persons of the priests, They were not gracious unto the elders.
- 17 As for us, our eyes do yet fail For our vain help; In our watching we have watched For a nation that could not .
- 18 They hunt our steps, That we cannot go in our broad places; Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; For our end is come.
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Our pursuers were swifter Than the eagles of the ; They chased us upon the mountains, They lay in wait for us in the wilderness.
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20
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of , Was taken in their pits; Of whom we said: ‘Under his shadow We shall live among the nations.’
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21
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of , That dwellest in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass over unto thee also; Thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
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Job 1:1 Amos 1:11 Psalm 137:7 Ezekiel 26:2 Jeremiah 25:15-29 Ezekiel 25:8 Psalm 83:3-12 Obadiah 1:1 Malachi 1:2-4 Obadiah 1:10-16 Ezekiel 25:6 Ezekiel 35:11-15 Ezekiel 25:12-14 2 Chronicles 28:19 Revelation 16:15 Isaiah 63:1-6 Ecclesiastes 11:9 Ezekiel 35:3-9 Isaiah 34:1-17 Micah 1:11 Genesis 36:28 Jeremiah 49:12 - 22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of , He will no more carry thee away into captivity; He will punish thine iniquity, O daughter of , He will uncover thy sins.