A Chapter A Day: Reading The Bible In 3 Years (Year 3, Quarter 4)

The Whole Story: A Life in God's Kingdom, Kingdom Come

The Whole Story: A Life in God's Kingdom, Part Three

The Whole Story: A Life in God's Kingdom, Part Two

The Whole Story: A Life in God's Kingdom, Part One

The Whole Story: A Life in God's Kingdom, the Word of God

The Gospel of Mark (Part Seven)

Strong Disciples Two

The Other Five Prayer Journey

15 Minute Daily Reading Plan

The Listener’s Bible®: KJV Edition

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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">How is the gold become dim!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">How</span></span><span class="content"> is the most fine gold changed!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">The stones of the sanctuary are poured out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">In the top of every street.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The precious sons of Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">Comparable to fine gold,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">The work of the hands of the potter!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Even the sea monsters draw out the breast,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">They give suck to their young ones:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">The daughter of my people </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is become</span></span><span class="content"> cruel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">Like the ostriches in the wilderness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">To the roof of his mouth for thirst:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">The young children ask bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> no man breaketh </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> unto them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They that did feed delicately</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">Are desolate in the streets:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">They that were brought up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">In scarlet embrace dunghills.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">Than the punishment of the sin of Sodom,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">That was overthrown as in a moment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">And no hands stayed on her.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Her Nazarites were purer than snow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">They were whiter than milk,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">They were more ruddy in body than rubies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">Their polishing </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> of sapphire:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Their visage is blacker than a coal;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">They are not known in the streets:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">Their skin cleaveth to their bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">It is withered, it is become like a stick.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">They that be</span></span><span class="content"> slain with the sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">Are better than </span><span class="add"><span class="content">they that be</span></span><span class="content"> slain with hunger:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">For these pine away, stricken</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">Through for </span><span class="add"><span class="content">want of</span></span><span class="content"> the fruits of the field.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The hands of the pitiful women</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">Have sodden their own children:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">They were their meat</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">In the destruction of the daughter of my people.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hath accomplished his fury;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">He hath poured out his fierce anger,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">And hath kindled a fire in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">And it hath devoured the foundations thereof.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The kings of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">And all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">That the adversary and the enemy should have entered</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">Into the gates of Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For the sins of her prophets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> the iniquities of her priests,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">That have shed the blood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">Of the just in the midst of her,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They have wandered </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as</span></span><span class="content"> blind </span><span class="add"><span class="content">men</span></span><span class="content"> in the streets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">They have polluted themselves with blood,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">So that men could not touch</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">Their garments.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They cried unto them, Depart ye; </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> unclean;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">Depart, depart, touch not:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">When they fled away and wandered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">They said among the heathen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">They shall no more sojourn </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The anger of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hath divided them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">He will no more regard them:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">They respected not the persons of the priests,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">They favoured not the elders.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As for us, our eyes as yet failed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">For our vain help:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">In our watching we have watched</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">For a nation </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> could not save </span><span class="add"><span class="content">us</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They hunt our steps,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">That we cannot go in our streets:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">Our end is near, our days are fulfilled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">For our end is come.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Our persecutors are swifter</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">Than the eagles of the heaven:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">They pursued us upon the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">They laid wait for us in the wilderness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">Was taken in their pits,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">Of whom we said, Under his shadow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">We shall live among the heathen.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">That dwellest in the land of Uz;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">The cup also shall pass through unto thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">Thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="content">He will no more carry thee away into captivity:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="content">He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="content">He will discover thy sins.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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