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Acts 12:1-25 | Sometimes It Looks Like God Is Failing

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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.1.18"><span class="content">yet I rebelled against his command.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.1.18"><span class="content">Listen, all you peoples;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.1.18"><span class="content">look on my suffering.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.1.18"><span class="content">My young men and young women</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.1.18"><span class="content">have gone into exile.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;I called to my allies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.1.19"><span class="content">but they betrayed me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.1.19"><span class="content">My priests and my elders</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.1.19"><span class="content">perished in the city</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.1.19"><span class="content">while they searched for food</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.1.19"><span class="content">to keep themselves alive.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, how distressed I am!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.1.20"><span class="content">I am in torment within,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.1.20"><span class="content">and in my heart I am disturbed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.1.20"><span class="content">for I have been most rebellious.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.1.20"><span class="content">Outside, the sword bereaves;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.1.20"><span class="content">inside, there is only death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.1.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;People have heard my groaning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.1.21"><span class="content">but there is no one to comfort me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.1.21"><span class="content">All my enemies have heard of my distress;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.1.21"><span class="content">they rejoice at what you have done.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.1.21"><span class="content">May you bring the day you have announced</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.1.21"><span class="content">so they may become like me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let all their wickedness come before you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.1.22"><span class="content">deal with them</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.1.22"><span class="content">as you have dealt with me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.1.22"><span class="content">because of all my sins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.1.22"><span class="content">My groans are many</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.1.22"><span class="content">and my heart is faint.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Lord is like an enemy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.2.5"><span class="content">he has swallowed up Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.2.5"><span class="content">He has swallowed up all her palaces</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.2.5"><span class="content">and destroyed her strongholds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.2.5"><span class="content">He has multiplied mourning and lamentation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.2.5"><span class="content">for Daughter Judah.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.2.6"><span class="content">he has destroyed his place of meeting.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.2.6"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has made Zion forget</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.2.6"><span class="content">her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.2.6"><span class="content">in his fierce anger he has spurned</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.2.6"><span class="content">both king and priest.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The Lord has rejected his altar</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.2.7"><span class="content">and abandoned his sanctuary.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.2.7"><span class="content">He has given the walls of her palaces</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.2.7"><span class="content">into the hands of the enemy;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.2.7"><span class="content">they have raised a shout in the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.2.7"><span class="content">as on the day of an appointed festival.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> determined to tear down</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.2.8"><span class="content">the wall around Daughter Zion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.2.8"><span class="content">He stretched out a measuring line</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.2.8"><span class="content">and did not withhold his hand from destroying.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.2.8"><span class="content">He made ramparts and walls lament;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.2.8"><span class="content">together they wasted away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Her gates have sunk into the ground;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.2.9"><span class="content">their bars he has broken and destroyed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.2.9"><span class="content">Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.2.9"><span class="content">the law is no more,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.2.9"><span class="content">and her prophets no longer find</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.2.9"><span class="content">visions from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The elders of Daughter Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.2.10"><span class="content">sit on the ground in silence;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.2.10"><span class="content">they have sprinkled dust on their heads</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.2.10"><span class="content">and put on sackcloth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.2.10"><span class="content">The young women of Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.2.10"><span class="content">have bowed their heads to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My eyes fail from weeping,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.2.11"><span class="content">I am in torment within;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.2.11"><span class="content">my heart is poured out on the ground</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.2.11"><span class="content">because my people are destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.2.11"><span class="content">because children and infants faint</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.2.11"><span class="content">in the streets of the city.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They say to their mothers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.2.12"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is bread and wine?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.2.12"><span class="content">as they faint like the wounded</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.2.12"><span class="content">in the streets of the city,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.2.12"><span class="content">as their lives ebb away</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.2.12"><span class="content">in their mothers&#8217; arms.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">What can I say for you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.2.13"><span class="content">With what can I compare you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.2.13"><span class="content">Daughter Jerusalem?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.2.13"><span class="content">To what can I liken you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.2.13"><span class="content">that I may comfort you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.2.13"><span class="content">Virgin Daughter Zion?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.2.13"><span class="content">Your wound is as deep as the sea.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.2.13"><span class="content">Who can heal you?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The visions of your prophets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.2.14"><span class="content">were false and worthless;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.2.14"><span class="content">they did not expose your sin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.2.14"><span class="content">to ward off your captivity.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.2.14"><span class="content">The prophecies they gave you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.2.14"><span class="content">were false and misleading.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">All who pass your way</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.2.15"><span class="content">clap their hands at you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.2.15"><span class="content">they scoff and shake their heads</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.2.15"><span class="content">at Daughter Jerusalem:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.2.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Is this the city that was called</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.2.15"><span class="content">the perfection of beauty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.2.15"><span class="content">the joy of the whole earth?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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