Lamentations 4:9-17
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9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be 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 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.