New American Standard Bible 1995

Lamentations 4:7-11

7Her 1consecrated ones were 2purer than snow, They were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in 3body than corals, Their polishing was like 4 5lapis lazuli.8Their appearance is 6blacker than soot, They are not recognized in the streets; Their 7skin is shriveled on their bones, It is withered, it has become like wood.9Better are those 8 9slain with the sword Than those 10slain with hunger; For they 11 12pine away, being stricken For lack of the fruits of 13the field.10The hands of compassionate women 14Boiled their own children; They became 15food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.11The Lord has 16accomplished His wrath, He has poured out His fierce anger; And He has 17kindled a fire in Zion Which has consumed its foundations.

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Notes

1. Lamentations 4:7 Or Nazirites ↩
2. Lamentations 4:7 Ps 51:7 ↩
3. Lamentations 4:7 Lit bones ↩
4. Lamentations 4:7 Heb sappir ↩
5. Lamentations 4:7 Ex 24:10; Job 28:16 ↩
6. Lamentations 4:8 Job 30:30; Lam 5:10 ↩
7. Lamentations 4:8 Job 19:20; Ps 102:3-5 ↩
8. Lamentations 4:9 Lit pierced ↩
9. Lamentations 4:9 Jer 16:4 ↩
10. Lamentations 4:9 Lit pierced ↩
11. Lamentations 4:9 Lit flow away ↩
12. Lamentations 4:9 Lev 26:39; Ezek 24:23 ↩
13. Lamentations 4:9 Lit my fields ↩
14. Lamentations 4:10 Lev 26:29; Deut 28:57; 2 Kin 6:29; Jer 19:9; Lam 2:20; Ezek 5:10 ↩
15. Lamentations 4:10 Deut 28:53-55 ↩
16. Lamentations 4:11 Jer 7:20; Lam 2:17; Ezek 22:31 ↩
17. Lamentations 4:11 Deut 32:22; Jer 17:27 ↩

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