Lamentações 4

1 How is the gold become dim!

2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold,

3 Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones:

4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst:

5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets:

6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom,

7 Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk;

8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets:

9 They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger;

10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children;

11 Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger;

12 The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world,

14 They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood,

15 Depart ye, they cried unto them, Unclean! depart, depart, touch not!

16 The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; he will no more regard them:

17 Our eyes do yet fail

18 They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets:

19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens:

20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits;

21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz:

22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: