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Yahweh’s Wrath Spent
א — Aleph
How adark the gold has become,How the pure gold has changed!The sacred stones are poured outAt the head of every street.
ב — Beth
2 The precious sons of Zion,Weighed against fine gold,How they are regarded as aearthen jars,The work of a potter’s hands!
ג — Gimel
3 Even ajackals offer the breast;They nurse their young;But the daughter of my people has become bcruelLike costriches in the wilderness.
ד — Daleth
4 The atongue of the nursing baby cleavesTo the roof of its mouth because of bthirst;The infants cask for bread,But no one breaks it for them.
ה — He
5 Those who ate adelicaciesAre desolate in the streets;Those 1reared in crimsonEmbrace ash pits.
ו — Vav
6 So the 1iniquity of the daughter of my peopleIs greater than the 2asin of Sodom,Which was boverthrown as in a moment,And no hands 3whirled toward her.
ז — Zayin
7 Her 1Nazirites were apurer than snow;They were whiter than milk;They were more ruddy in 2body than corals,Their polishing was like 3blapis lazuli.
ח — Heth
8 Their form is ablacker than soot;They are not recognized in the streets;Their bskin is shriveled on their bones;It is withered, it has become like wood.
ט — Teth
9 Better are those apierced through with the swordThan those pierced through with hunger;For their life bflows away, being strickenFor lack of the produce of 1the field.
י — Yodh
10 The hands of compassionate womenaBoiled their own children;They became bfood for themBecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
כ — Kaph
11 Yahweh has aspent His wrath;He has poured out His burning anger;And He has bkindled a fire in ZionWhich has devoured its foundations.
ל — Lamedh
12 The kings of the earth did not believe,Nor did any of athe inhabitants of the world,That the adversary and the enemyCould benter the gates of Jerusalem.
מ — Mem
13 Because of the sins of her aprophetsAnd the iniquities of her priests,Who have shed in her midstThe bblood of the righteous;
נ — Nun
14 They wandered, ablind, in the streets;They were defiled with bbloodSo that no one could touch their cgarments.
ס — Samekh
15 “Depart! aUnclean!” 1they cried of themselves.“Depart, depart, do not touch!”So they bfled and wandered;Men among the nations said,“They shall not continue to sojourn with us.”
פ — Pe
16 The presence of Yahweh has eradicated them;He will not continue to look at them;They did not 1ahonor the priests;They did not favor the elders.
ע — Ayin
17 Yet our eyes were spent,Looking for 1help was avanity;In our watching we have watchedFor a bnation that could not save.
צ — Tsadhe
18 They ahunted our stepsSo that we could not walk in our open squares;Our bend drew near,Our days were 1finished,For our end had come.
ק — Qoph
19 Our pursuers were aswifterThan the eagles of the sky;They hotly pursued us on the mountains;They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.
ר — Resh
20 The abreath of our nostrils, the banointed of Yahweh,Was ccaptured in their pits,Of whom we had said, “Under his dshadowWe shall live among the nations.”
ש — Sin
21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of aEdom,Who inhabits the land of Uz;But the bcup will pass on to you as well;You will become drunk and make yourself naked.
ת — Tav
22 The punishment of your iniquity has come ato an end, O daughter of Zion;He will exile you no longer.But He bwill punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom;He will expose your sins!
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