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HE. They that feed on dainties are desolate in the streets: they that used to be nursed in scarlet have clothed themselves with dung.
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VAU. And the iniquity of the daughter of my people has been increased beyond the iniquities of Sodoma, that was overthrown very suddenly, and none laboured against her hands.
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ZAIN. Her Nazarites were made purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were purified with fire, their polishing was superior to sapphire stone.
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HETH. Their countenance is become blacker than smoke; they are not known in the streets: their skin has cleaved to their bones; they are withered, they are become as a stick.
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TETH. The slain with the sword were better than they that were slain with hunger: they have departed, pierced through from the fruits of the field.
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JOD. The hands of tender-hearted women have sodden their own children: they became meat for them in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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CHAPH. The Lord has accomplished his wrath; he has poured out fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Sion, and it has devoured her foundations.
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LAMED. The kings of the earth, all that dwell in the world, believed not that an enemy and oppressor would enter through the gates of Jerusalem.
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MEM. For the sins of her prophets, iniquities of her priests, who shed righteous blood in the midst of her,
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NUN. her watchmen staggered in the streets, they were defiled with blood in their weakness, they touched their raiment .
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SAMECH. Depart ye from the unclean ones: call ye them: depart, depart, touch not: for they are on fire, yea, they stagger: say ye among the nations, They shall no more sojourn .