Hello and welcome to
"His Words Are Life."
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I'm Kelly Mowrer
and today we're reading
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from the book of Lamentations.
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Let's us pray
together before we start.
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Dear Heavenly Father,
thank You for Your word
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that You have kept for us
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and how You have brought
us to this time to hear it.
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Please send your Holy Spirit now
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to guide our ears as we listen.
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We love You and thank
You for loving us, amen.
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I'm reading in
Lamentations, Chapter 2
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beginning with verse 11 and
this is the King James Version.
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"Mine eyes do fail with
tears, my bowels are troubled,
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my liver is
poured upon the earth,
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for the destruction of
the daughter of my people,
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because the children
and the suckling swoon
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in the streets of the city.
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They say to their
mothers, where is corn and wine?
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When they swooned as the wounded
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in the streets of the city,
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when their soul was poured
out into their mothers' bosom.
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What thing shall I
take to witness for thee?
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What thing
shall I liken to thee,
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O daughter of Jerusalem?
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What shall I equal to thee,
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that I may comfort thee,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
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For thy breach is great
like the sea, who can heal thee?
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Thy prophets have seen vain
and foolish things for thee,
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and they have not
discovered thine iniquity,
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to turn away thy captivity,
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but have seen for
thee false burdens
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and causes of banishment.
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All that pass by
clap their hands at thee,
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they hiss and wag their head
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at the daughter
of Jerusalem, saying,
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Is this the city that men call,
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The perfection of beauty,
The joy of the whole earth?
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All thine enemies have
opened their mouth against thee,
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they hiss and gnash the teeth.
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They say, "We
have swallowed her up."
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Certainly this is the
day that we looked for,
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we have found, we have seen it.
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The Lord hath done
that which he had devised.
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He hath fulfilled his word
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that he had
commanded in the days of old.
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He hath thrown
down, and hath not pitied,
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and He hath caused thine
enemy to rejoice over thee.
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He hath set up the
horn of thine adversaries.
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Their heart cried unto the Lord,
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O wall of the daughter of Zion,
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let tears run down
like a river day and night,
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give thyself no rest,
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let not the apple
of thine eye cease.
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Arise, cry out in the night,
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in the beginning of the watches
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pour out thine heart like water
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before the face of the Lord.
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Lift up thy hands toward him
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for the life of
thy young children,
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that faint for hunger
in the top of every street.
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Behold, O Lord, and consider
to whom thou hast done this.
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Shall the women eat their fruit,
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and children of a span long?
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Shall the priest
and the prophet be slain
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in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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The young and the old lie
on the ground in the streets,
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my virgins and my young
men are fallen by the sword.
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Thou hast slain them
in the day of thine anger,
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thou hast
killed, and not pitied.
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thou hast called
as in a solemn day
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my terrors round about,
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so that in the day
of the Lord's anger
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none escaped nor remained.
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Those that I have swaddled
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and brought up hath
mine enemy consumed."
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Continuing in
Lamentations Chapter 3,
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this is the King James Version.
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"I am the man that
hath seen affliction
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by the rod of his wrath.
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He hath led me, and
brought me into darkness,
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but not into light.
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Surely against me is He turned,
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He turneth His hand
against me all the day.
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My flesh and my
skin hath He made old,
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He hath broken my bones.
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He hath builded against me,
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and compassed me
with gall and travail.
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He hath set me in dark places,
as they that be dead of old.
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He hath hedged me
about, that I cannot get out.
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He hath made my chain heavy.
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Also when I cry and shout,
He shutteth out my prayer.
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He hath inclosed my
ways with hewn stone.
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He hath made my paths crooked.
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He was unto me as
a bear lying in wait,
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and as a lion in secret places.
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He hath turned aside my
ways, and pulled me in pieces,
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he hath made me desolate.
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He hath bent His bow,
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and set me as a
mark for the arrow.
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He hath caused the arrows
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of His quiver to
enter into my reins.
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I was a derision
to all my people,
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and their song all the day.
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He hath filled
me with bitterness,
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he hath made me
drunken with wormwood.
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He hath also broken my
teeth with gravel stones,
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he hath covered me with ashes.
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And thou hast removed
my soul far off from peace,
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I forgat prosperity.
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And I said, My strength
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and my hope is
perished from the Lord.
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Remembering mine
affliction and my misery,
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the wormwood and the gall.
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My soul hath them
still in remembrance,
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and is humbled in me.
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This I recall to my
mind, therefore have I hope.
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It is of the Lord's mercies
that we are not consumed,
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because His
compassions fail not.
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They are new every morning,
great is thy faithfulness.
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The Lord is my
portion, saith my soul,
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therefore will I hope in Him.
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The Lord is good unto
them that wait for Him,
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to the soul that seeketh Him.
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It is good that a
man should both hope
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and quietly wait for
the salvation of the Lord.
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It is good for a man that
he bear the yoke in his youth.
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He sitteth alone
and keepeth silence,
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because he hath
borne it upon him.
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He putteth his
mouth in the dust,
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if so be there may be hope.
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He giveth his cheek
to Him that smiteth Him,
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He is filled full with reproach.
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For the Lord will
not cast off for ever.
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But though he cause grief,
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yet will he have compassion
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according to the
multitude of his mercies.
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For he doth not
afflict willingly
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nor grieve the children of men.
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To crush under his feet
all the prisoners of the earth.
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To turn aside the right of a man
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before the face
of the most High.
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To subvert a man in his cause,
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the Lord approveth not.
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Who is he that saith,
and it cometh to pass,
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when the Lord commandeth it not?
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Out of the
mouth of the Most High
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proceedeth not evil and good?
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Wherefore doth a
living man complain,
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a man for the
punishment of his sins?
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Let us search and try our ways,
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and turn again to the Lord.
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Let us lift up our
heart with our hands
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unto God in the heavens.
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We have
transgressed and have rebelled,
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thou hast not pardoned.
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Thou hast covered with
anger, and persecuted us,
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thou hast slain,
thou hast not pitied.
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Thou hast covered
thyself with a cloud,
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that our prayer
should not pass through.
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Thou hast made us
as the offscouring
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and refuse in the
midst of the people.
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All our enemies have
opened their mouths against us.
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Fear and a
snare is come upon us,
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desolation and destruction.
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Mine eye runneth
down with rivers of water
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for the destruction of
the daughter of my people.
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Mine eye trickleth
down, and ceaseth not,
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without any intermission.
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Till the Lord look
down, and behold from heaven.
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Mine eye affecteth mine heart
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because of all the
daughters of my city.
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Mine enemies chased me sore,
like a bird, without cause.
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They have cut off
my life in the dungeon,
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and cast a stone upon me.
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Waters flowed over mine
head, then I said, I am cut off.
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I called upon thy name, O
Lord out of the low dungeon.
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Thou hast heard my voice,
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hide not thine ear at
my breathing, at my cry.
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Thou drewest near in the
day that I called upon thee,
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thou saidst, Fear not.
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O Lord, thou hast
pleaded the causes of my soul,
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thou hast redeemed my life.
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O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong,
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judge thou my cause.
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Thou hast seen
all their vengeance
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and all their
imaginations against me.
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Thou hast heard
their reproach, O Lord,
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and all their
imaginations against me.
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The lips of those
that rose up against me,
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and their device
against me all the day.
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Behold their sitting down,
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and their rising
up, I am their musick.
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Render unto them a
recompence, O Lord,
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according to the
work of their hands.
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Give them sorrow of
heart, thy curse upon them.
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Persecute and
destroy them in anger
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from under the
heavens of the Lord."
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Continuing in the Book
of Lamentations, Chapter 4
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and this is the
King James Version.
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How is the gold become dim!
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How is the most
fine gold changed!
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The stones of the sanctuary
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are poured out in
the top of every street.
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The precious sons of
Zion, comparable to fine gold,
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how are they
esteemed as earthen pitchers,
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the work of the
hands of the potter!
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Even the sea
monsters draw out the breast,
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they give suck
to their young ones.
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The daughter of my
people is become cruel,
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like the
ostriches in the wilderness.
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The tongue of the
sucking child cleaveth
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to the roof of
his mouth for thirst,
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the young children ask bread,
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and no man
breaketh it unto them.
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They that did feed delicately
are desolate in the streets.
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They that were brought up
in scarlet embrace dunghills.
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For the
punishment of the iniquity
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of the daughter of
my people is greater
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than the punishment
of the sin of Sodom,
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that was
overthrown as in a moment,
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and no hands stayed on her.
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Her Nazarites
were purer than snow,
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they were whiter than milk,
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they were more
ruddy in body than rubies,
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their polishing was of sapphire.
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Their visage is
blacker than a coal.
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They are not
known in the streets.
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Their skin
cleaveth to their bones,
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it is withered, it
is become like a stick.
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They that be
slain with the sword
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are better than they
that be slain with hunger,
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for these pine
away, stricken through
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for want of the
fruits of the field.
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The hands of the pitiful women
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have sodden their own children,
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they were their
meat in the destruction
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of the daughter of my people.
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The Lord hath
accomplished his fury.
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He hath poured
out His fierce anger,
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and hath kindled a fire in Zion,
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and it hath devoured
the foundations thereof.
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The kings of the earth,
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and all the
inhabitants of the world,
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would not have
believed that the adversary
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and the enemy
should have entered
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into the gates of Jerusalem.
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For the sins of her prophets,
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and the iniquities of
her priests, that have shed
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the blood of the
just in the midst of her.
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They have wandered as
blind men in the streets,
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they have polluted
themselves with blood,
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so that men could
not touch their garments.
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They cried unto them,
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Depart ye, it is unclean,
depart, depart, touch not,
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when they fled
away and wandered,
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they said among the heathen.
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They shall no
more sojourn there.
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The anger of the
Lord hath divided them.
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He will no more regard them.
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They respected not the
persons of the priests,
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they favored not the elders.
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As for us, our eyes as
yet failed for our vain help,
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in our watching we have watched
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for a nation that
could not save us.
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They hunt our
steps, that we cannot go
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in our streets, our end is near,
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our days are
fulfilled, for our end is come.
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Our persecutors are swifter
than the eagles of the heaven,
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they pursued us
upon the mountains,
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they laid wait for
us in the wilderness.
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The breath of our nostrils,
the anointed of the Lord,
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was taken in their
pits, of whom we said,
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under His shadow we
shall live among the heathen.
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Rejoice and be
glad, O daughter of Edom,
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that dwellest in the land of Uz.
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The cup also shall
pass through unto thee,
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thou shalt be drunken,
and shalt make thyself naked.
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The punishment of thine
iniquity is accomplished,
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O daughter of Zion.
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He will no more carry
thee away into captivity.
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He will visit thine
iniquity, O daughter of Edom.
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He will discover thy sins."
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Continuing in
Lamentations, Chapter 5,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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Remember, O Lord,
what is come upon us,
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consider, and
behold our reproach.
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Our inheritance is turned
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to strangers,
our houses to aliens.
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We are orphans and fatherless,
our mothers are as widows.
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We have drunken
our water for money,
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our wood is sold unto us.
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Our necks are under persecution,
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we labour, and have no rest.
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We have given the
hand to the Egyptians,
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and to the Assyrians,
to be satisfied with bread.
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Our fathers have
sinned, and are not,
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and we have
borne their iniquities.
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Servants have ruled over us
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there is none that doth
deliver us out of their hand.
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We gat our bread with
the peril of our lives
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because of the
sword of the wilderness.
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Our skin was black like an oven
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because of the terrible famine.
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They ravished the women in Zion,
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and the maids in
the cities of Judah.
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Princes are
hanged up by their hand,
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the faces of
elders were not honored.
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They took the
young men to grind,
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and the children
fell under the wood.
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The elders have
ceased from the gate,
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the young men from their musick.
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The joy of our heart is ceased,
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our dance is
turned into mourning.
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The crown is
fallen from our head,
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woe unto us,
that we have sinned!
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For this our heart is faint,
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for these things
our eyes are dim.
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Because of the mountain of Zion,
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which is desolate,
the foxes walk upon it.
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Thou, O Lord,
remainest for ever,
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thy throne from
generation to generation.
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Wherefore dost
thou forget us for ever,
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and forsake us so long time?
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Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord,
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and we shall be turned,
renew our days as of old.
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But thou hast
utterly rejected us,
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thou art very wroth against us."
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Please join me again next time
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to read the
word of God together.
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