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The Distress of the Siege

Jeremiah Weeps as he Thinks about the Past Blessings of Jerusalem

 
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How the gold has become dim!The most pure gold has changed!The stones of the sanctuary are poured outat the head of every street. +
2 
The precious sons of Zion,comparable to fine gold,how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers,the work of the hands of the potter! +
3 
Even the jackals draw offer their breast.They nurse their young ones.But the daughter of my people has become cruel,like the ostriches in the wilderness. +
4 
The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst.The young children ask bread,and no one breaks it for them. +
5 
Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets.Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills. +
6 
For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom,which was overthrown as in a moment.No hands were laid on her. +
7 
Her nobles were purer than snow.They were whiter than milk.They were more ruddy in body than rubies.Their polishing was like sapphire. +
8 
Their appearance is blacker than a coal.They are not known in the streets.Their skin clings to their bones.It is withered.It has become like a stick. +
9 
Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger;For these pine away, stricken through,for lack of the fruits of the field. +
10 
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children.They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. +
11 
The LORD has accomplished his wrath.He has poured out his fierce anger.He has kindled a fire in Zion,which has devoured its foundations. +
12 
The kings of the earth didn't believe,neither did all the inhabitants of the world,that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem. +
13 
It is because of the sins of her prophetsand the iniquities of her priests,That have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her. +
14 
They wander as blind men in the streets.They are polluted with blood,So that men can't touch their garments. +
15 
"Go away!" they cried to them."Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don't touch!When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations,"They can't live here any more." +
16 
The LORD's anger has scattered them.He will not pay attention to them any more.They didn't respect the persons of the priests.They didn't favor the elders. +
17 
Our eyes still fail,looking in vain for our help.In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save. +
18 
They hunt our steps,so that we can't go in our streets.Our end is near.Our days are fulfilled,for our end has come. +
19 
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky.They chased us on the mountains.They set an ambush for us in the wilderness. +
20 
The breath of our nostrils,the anointed of The LORD,was taken in their pits;of whom we said,under his shadow we will live among the nations. +
21 
Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom,that dwells in the land of Uz.The cup will pass through to you also.You will be drunken,and will make yourself naked. +
22 
The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion.He will no more carry you away into captivity.He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom.He will uncover your sins. +


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