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⁶⁰Thou hast seen all their vengeance

And all their devices against me.

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⁶¹Thou hast heard their taunt, O Lord,

And all their devices against me;

⁶²The lips of those that rose up against me,

And their muttering against me all the day.

⁶³Behold Thou their sitting down, and their rising up;

I am their song.

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⁶⁴Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Lord,

According to the work of their hands.

⁶⁵Thou wilt give them hardness of heart,

Thy curse unto them.

⁶⁶Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them

From under the heavens of the Lord.

א4How is the gold become dim!

How is the most fine gold changed!

The hallowed stones are poured out

At the head of every street.

ב²The precious sons of Zion,

Comparable to fine gold,

How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers,

The work of the hands of the potter!

ג³Even the jackals 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.

ד⁴The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth

To the roof of his mouth for thirst;

The young children ask bread,

And none breaketh it unto them.

ה⁵They that did feed on dainties

Are desolate in the streets;

They that were brought up in scarlet

Embrace dunghills.

ו⁶For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater

Than the sin of Sodom,

That was overthrown as in a moment,

And no hands fell upon her.

ז⁷Her princes were purer than snow,

They were whiter than milk,

They were more ruddy in body than rubies,

Their polishing was as of sapphire;

ח⁸Their visage is blacker than coal;

They are not known in the streets;

Their skin is shrivelled upon their bones;

It is withered, it is become like a stick.

ט⁹They that are slain with the sword are better

Than they that are slain with hunger;

For these pine away, stricken through,

For want of the fruits of the field.

י¹⁰The hands of women full of compassion

Have sodden their own children;

They were their food

In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

 

כ¹¹The Lord hath accomplished His fury,

He hath poured out His fierce anger;

And He hath kindled a fire in Zion,

Which hath devoured the foundations thereof.

ל¹²The kings of the earth believed not,

Neither all the inhabitants of the world,

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