Lamentations 4:9-22 ▼

9 Those wounded by the sword were good above those wounded by famine: these will flow away, being thrust through from the produce of the field.

10 The hands of compassionate women boiled their children: they were for food to them in the breaking of the daughter of my people.

11 Jehovah finished his wrath; he poured out the burning of his anger, and he kindled a fire in Zion, and it will devour her foundations.

12 The kings of the earth believed not, and all those dwelling in the habitable globe, that the enemy will come in to the gates of Jerusalem.

13 From the sins of her prophets the iniquities of her priests shedding the blood of the just in her midst,

14 The blind were shaken in the streets, they were stained with blood, so that they shall not be able to touch upon their garments.

15 Remove the unclean one, call to them; remove, remove, ye shall not touch: for they were laid waste; they were shaken, say ye, among the nations: they shall not add to sojourn.

16 The face of Jehovah their portion; he will not add to look upon them: they accepted not the face of the priests, they compassionated not the old men.

17 Continuing, yet our eyes will fail, for our help in vain: in our watching we watched for a nation it will not save us.

18 They hunted our steps from going in our broad places: our end drew near, our days were completed; for our end came.

19 They pursuing us were swift above the eagle of the heavens: they burned after us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the desert.

20 The spirit of our nostrils, the Messiah of Jehovah was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, dwelling in the land of Uz; also upon thee shall the cup pass: thou shalt be drunken, and make thyself naked.

22 Thine iniquity was finished, O daughter of Zion; he will not add to carry thee into exile: reviewing thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he uncovered upon thy sins.