Lamentations 4:10-22
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10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
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12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
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13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
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14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
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15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
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16 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
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17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
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18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
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19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
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21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
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22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.