Lamentations 4

1How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.Cross-references: 2Ki 25:9 · Isa 1:21 · Isa 14:12 · Jer 52:13 · Lam 2:19 · Ezek 7:19 · +3 more

2The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!Cross-references: Isa 30:14 · Isa 51:18 · Jer 19:11 · Jer 22:28 · Lam 2:21 · Lam 5:12 · +4 more

3Even the jackals offer their breast. They nurse their young ones. But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.Cross-references: Lev 26:29 · Deut 28:52 · 2Ki 6:26 · Job 39:13 · Isa 49:15 · Jer 19:9 · +5 more

4The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them.Cross-references: Deut 32:24 · Ps 22:15 · Ps 137:6 · Lam 1:11 · Lam 2:11 · Matt 7:9

5Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.Cross-references: Deut 28:54 · 2Sam 1:24 · Job 24:8 · Prov 31:21 · Isa 3:16 · Isa 24:6 · +9 more

6For 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.Cross-references: Gen 19:25 · Isa 1:9 · Lam 4:9 · Ezek 16:48 · Dan 9:12 · Matt 11:23 · +3 more

7Her nobles were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was like sapphire.Cross-references: Num 6:2 · Judg 13:5 · Judg 13:7 · Judg 16:17 · 1Sam 16:12 · Ps 51:7 · +5 more

8Their 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 wood.Cross-references: Ruth 1:19 · Job 2:12 · Job 19:20 · Job 30:17 · Job 30:30 · Job 33:21 · +10 more

9Those 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.Cross-references: Lev 26:39 · Jer 16:4 · Ezek 24:23 · Ezek 33:10

10The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.Cross-references: Lev 26:29 · Deut 28:53 · 2Ki 6:26 · Isa 49:15 · Jer 19:9 · Lam 2:20 · +3 more

11Yahweh has accomplished his wrath. He has poured out his fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.Cross-references: Deut 32:21 · Jer 6:11 · Jer 7:20 · Jer 9:9 · Jer 13:14 · Jer 14:15 · +14 more

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.Cross-references: Deut 29:24 · 1Ki 9:8 · Ps 48:4 · Jer 21:13

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.Cross-references: Jer 2:20 · Jer 5:31 · Jer 6:13 · Jer 14:14 · Jer 23:11 · Jer 26:8 · +9 more

14They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, So that men can’t touch their garments.Cross-references: Num 19:16 · Num 35:33 · Deut 28:28 · Isa 1:15 · Isa 29:10 · Isa 56:10 · +6 more

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.”Cross-references: Lev 13:45

16Yahweh’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.Cross-references: Gen 49:7 · Lev 26:33 · Deut 28:25 · Deut 28:64 · Deut 32:26 · 2Ki 25:18 · +7 more

17Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.Cross-references: 2Ki 24:7 · Isa 20:5 · Isa 30:1 · Isa 31:1 · Jer 2:18 · Jer 2:36 · +6 more

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.Cross-references: 1Sam 24:14 · 2Ki 25:4 · Job 10:16 · Ps 140:11 · Jer 1:12 · Jer 16:16 · +8 more

19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky. They chased us on the mountains. They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.Cross-references: Deut 28:49 · Isa 5:26 · Isa 30:16 · Jer 4:13 · Hos 8:1 · Amos 2:14 · +3 more

20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.Cross-references: Gen 2:7 · Gen 44:30 · 1Sam 12:3 · 1Sam 12:5 · 1Sam 16:6 · 1Sam 24:6 · +14 more

21Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, who dwells in the land of Uz. The cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken, and will make yourself naked.Cross-references: Gen 36:28 · 2Chr 28:19 · Job 1:1 · Ps 83:3 · Ps 137:7 · Eccl 11:9 · +16 more

22The 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.Cross-references: Ps 137:7 · Isa 40:2 · Isa 52:1 · Isa 60:18 · Jer 32:40 · Jer 33:8 · +6 more