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For the chastisement of the daughter of my people has been greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, no hand being laid on it.
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Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, the beauty of their form was like sapphire.
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Now their visage is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled upon their bones, it has become as dry as wood.
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Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of hunger, who pined away, stricken by want of the fruits of the field.
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The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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The LORD gave full vent to his wrath, he poured out his hot anger; and he kindled a fire in Zion, which consumed its foundations.
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The kings of the earth did not believe, or any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
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This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.
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They wandered, blind, through the streets, so defiled with blood that none could touch their garments.
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"Away! Unclean!" men cried at them; "Away! Away! Touch not!" So they became fugitives and wanderers; men said among the nations, "They shall stay with us no longer."
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The LORD himself has scattered them, he will regard them no more; no honor was shown to the priests, no favor to the elders.