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Text -- Lamentations 4:1-12 (NET)
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The Prophet Speaks:
4:1 א (Alef)Alas ! Gold has lost its luster ; pure gold loses value. Jewels are scattered on every street corner .
4:2 ב(Bet) The precious sons of Zion were worth their weight in gold – Alas !– but now they are treated like broken clay pots , made by a potter .
4:3 ג(Gimel) Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast , but my people are cruel , like ostriches in the desert .
4:4 ד(Dalet) The infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst ; little children beg for bread , but no one gives them even a morsel.
4:5 ה(He) Those who once feasted on delicacies are now starving to death in the streets . Those who grew up wearing expensive clothes are now dying amid garbage .
4:6 ו(Vav) The punishment of my people exceeded that of of Sodom , which was overthrown in a moment with no one to help her.
4:7 ז(Zayin) Her consecrated ones were brighter than snow , whiter than milk ; their bodies more ruddy than corals , their hair like lapis lazuli .
4:8 ח(Khet) Now their appearance is darker than soot ; they are not recognized in the streets . Their skin has shriveled on their bones ; it is dried up , like tree bark.
4:9 ט(Tet) Those who died by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger , those who waste away , struck down from lack of food .
4:10 י(Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children , who became their food , when my people were destroyed .
4:11 כ(Kaf) The Lord fully vented his wrath ; he poured out his fierce anger . He started a fire in Zion ; it consumed her foundations .
4:12 ל(Lamed) Neither the kings of the earth nor the people of the lands ever thought that enemy or foe would enter the gates of Jerusalem .
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