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the foundations thereof.
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.
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,
14
They have wandered
as
blind
men
in the streets, they have polluted
themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
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.
16
The anger of the L
ORD
hath divided them; he will
no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
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.
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.
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.
20
The breath of our
nostrils, the anointed of the L
ORD
, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we
shall live among the heathen.
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.
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.
CHAPTER 5
Remember, O L
ORD
, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2
Our inheritance
is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers
are
as
widows.
4
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5
Our necks
are
under
persecution: we labour,
and
have no rest.
6
We have given the hand
to
the Egyptians,
and to
the
Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7
Our fathers have sinned,
and are
not; and we have borne
their iniquities.
8
Servants have ruled over us:
there is
none that doth deliver
us
out of their hand.
9
We gat our bread with
the peril of
our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10
Our skin
was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11
They ravished the women in Zion,
and
the maids in the cities of Judah.
12
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were
not honoured.
13
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14
The
elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15
The joy of our heart is ceased;
our dance is turned into mourning.
16
The crown is fallen
from
our head: woe unto us, that we have
sinned!
17
For this our heart is faint; for these
things
our eyes are dim.
18
Because of the mountain
of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19
Thou, O L
ORD
, remainest for ever; thy throne
from generation to generation.
20
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever,
and
forsake us so long
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