Lam 4:15 "Depart! Unclean!" they cried of themselves. "Depart, depart, do not touch!" So they fled and wandered; Men among the nations said, "They shall not continue to dwell with us."
Lam 4:16 The presence of the LORD has scattered them, He will not continue to regard them; They did not honor the priests, They did not favor the elders.
Lam 4:17 Yet our eyes failed, Looking for help was useless; In our watching we have watched For a nation that could not save.
Lam 4:18 They hunted our steps So that we could not walk in our streets; Our end drew near, Our days were finished For our end had come.
Lam 4:19 Our pursuers were swifter Than the eagles of the sky; They chased us on the mountains, They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.
Lam 4:20 The breath of our nostrils, the LORD'S anointed, Was captured in their pits, Of whom we had said, "Under his shadow We shall live among the nations."
Lam 4:21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, Who dwells in the land of Uz; But the cup will come around to you as well, You will become drunk and make yourself naked.
Lam 4:22The punishment of your iniquity has been completed, O daughter of Zion; He will exile you no longer. But He will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins!
Lam 5:1 Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; Look, and see our reproach!
Lam 5:3 We have become orphans without a father, Our mothers are like widows.
Lam 5:4 We have to pay for our drinking water, Our wood comes to us at a price.
Lam 5:5 Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, there is no rest for us.
Lam 5:6 We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
Lam 5:7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; It is we who have borne their iniquities.
Lam 5:8 Slaves rule over us; There is no one to deliver us from their hand.
Lam 5:9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword in the wilderness.
Lam 5:10 Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
Lam 5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
Lam 5:12 Princes were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected.
Lam 5:13 Young men worked at the grinding mill, And youths stumbled under loads of wood.