Lamentations 4:10–18
10The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.↗
11The LORD has accomplished his wrath. He has poured out his fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.↗
12The 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.↗
13It is because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.↗
14They 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.”↗
16The 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.↗
17Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.↗
18They 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.↗
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