1How the gold has grown dim;
how the pure gold is changed!
The sacred stones lie scattered
at the head of every street.
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8 Job 30.30; Ps 102.5; Lam 5.10 Now their visage is blacker than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become as dry as wood.
9 Jer 15.2; Ezek 24.23 Happier were those pierced by the sword
than those pierced by hunger,
whose life drains away, deprived
of the produce of the field.
10 Deut 28.57; 2 Kings 6.29; Lam 2.20 The hands of compassionate women
have boiled their own children;
they became their food
in the destruction of my people.
11 v 22 ; Deut 32.22; Jer 7.20; 21.14The Lord gave full vent to his wrath;
he poured out his hot anger
and kindled a fire in Zion
that consumed its foundations.
12 1 Kings 9.8, 9; Jer 21.13 The kings of the earth did not believe,
nor did any of the inhabitants of the world,
that foe or enemy could enter
the gates of Jerusalem.
13 Jer 5.31; 6.13; Ezek 22.26; Mic 3.11, 12; Mt 23.31 It was for the sins of her prophets
and the iniquities of her priests,
who shed the blood of the righteous
in her midst.
14 Isa 56.10; 59.9, 10; Jer 2.34; 19.4 Blindly they wandered through the streets,
so defiled with blood
that no one was able
to touch their garments.
15 Lev 13.45; Jer 49.5 “Away! Unclean!” people shouted at them;
“Away! Away! Do not touch!”
So they became fugitives and wanderers;
it was said among the nations,
“They shall stay here no longer.”
16 Lam 5.12 The Lord himself has scattered them;
he will regard them no more;
no honor was shown to the priests,
no favor to the elders.
17 2 Kings 24.7; Isa 20.5; Jer 37.7; Ezek 29.16 Our eyes failed, ever watching
vainly for help;
we were watching eagerly
for a nation that could not save.
18 2 Kings 25.4; Ezek 7.2, 3; Am 8.2 They dogged our steps
so that we could not walk in our streets;
our end drew near; our days were numbered,
for our end had come.
19 Deut 28.49; Jer 4.13; Hab 1.8 Our pursuers were swifter
than the eagles in the heavens;
they chased us on the mountains;
they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.
20 2 Sam 1.14; 19.21; Ezek 12.13; 19.4, 8 The Lord’s anointed, the breath of our life,
was taken in their pits—
the one of whom we said, “Under his shadow
we shall live among the nations.”
21 Isa 34.7; Am 1.11, 12; Ob 1, 16 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter Edom,
you that live in the land of Uz;
but to you also the cup shall pass;
you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.
22 Isa 40.2; Mal 1.3, 4 The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter Zion, is accomplished;
he will keep you in exile no longer;
but your iniquity, O daughter Edom, he will punish;
he will uncover your sins.
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