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4:1  How the gold has become dim! How the most fine gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary lie scattered at the head of every street.
4:2  The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pots, the work of a potter’s hands!
4:3  Even the jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young, yet the daughter of my people has become cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.
4:4  The tongue of the infant cleaves to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the children beg for bread, but no one divides it for them.
4:5  Those who once ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those who were brought up in scarlet embrace ash heaps.
4:6  For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, and no hands were wrung for her.
4:7  Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphire.
4:8  Their form is blacker than coal; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin cleaves to their bones, it has become as dry as wood.
4:9  Those killed by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, for they pine away, stricken for want of the fruits of the field.
4:10  The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
4:11  The Lord has fulfilled His fury, He has poured out His fierce anger. He kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured its foundations.
4:12  The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
4:13  This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who poured out in her midst the blood of the righteous.
4:14  They wandered, blind, in the streets; they have defiled themselves with blood, so that no one could touch their garments.
4:15  They cried out to them, “Depart! Unclean! Depart, depart, do not touch us!” Therefore they fled and wandered; men among the nations said, “They shall live with us no longer.”
4:16  The presence of the Lord scattered them; He will regard them no more; they do not respect the priests, nor show favor to the elders.
4:17  Our eyes failed us, watching vainly for help; in our watchtowers we watched for a nation that could not save us.
4:18  They tracked our steps so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near; our days were numbered, for our end had come.
4:19  Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the skies. They pursued us on the mountains; they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.
4:20  The breath of our life, the anointed king of the Lord, was captured in their traps, of whom we said, “Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.”
4:21  Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz! The cup shall also pass to you; you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.
4:22  The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished; He shall exile you no longer. He shall punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins!