{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Lamentations",
 "chapter": 4,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!"
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:"
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "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,"
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "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."
  }
 ],
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 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}