25:004:005 They that did feed delicately are desolate
in the streets:
they
that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
25:004:006 For the punishment of the iniquity of the
daughter of my
people
is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom,
that
was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed
on
her.
25:004:007 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they
were whiter than
milk,
they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their
polishing
was of sapphire:
25:004:008 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they
are not known in the
streets:
their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered,
it
is become like a stick.
25:004:009 They that be slain with the sword are better
than they that be
slain
with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through
for
want
of the fruits of the field.
25:004:010 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden
their own children:
they
were their meat in the destruction of the daughter
of my
people.
25:004:011 The lord hath accomplished his fury;
he hath poured out his
fierce
anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath
devoured
the foundations thereof.
25:004:012 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants
of the world,
would
not have believed that the adversary and the enemy
should
have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
25:004:013 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities
of her
priests,
that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of
her,
25:004:014 They have wandered as blind men in the
streets, they have
polluted
themselves with blood, so that men could not touch
their
garments.
25:004:015 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is
unclean; depart,
depart,
touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they
said
among
the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
25:004:016 The anger of the lord hath divided
them; he will no more
regard
them: they respected not the persons of the priests,
they
favoured not the elders.
25:004:017 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our
vain help: in our
watching
we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
25:004:018 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go
in our streets: our end
is
near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
25:004:019 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles
of the heaven:
they
pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us
in
the
wilderness.
25:004:020 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed
of the lord, was
taken
in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we
shall
live among the heathen.


