Lamentations 4

1 How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

how? to darken gold to change [the] gold [the] pleasant to pour: scatter stone holiness in/on/with head: top all outside

2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

son: descendant/people Zion [the] precious [the] to weigh in/on/with pure gold how? to devise: count to/for bag earthenware deed: work hand to form: potter

3 Even the jackals offer their breast. They nurse their young ones. But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

also (jackal *QK) to rescue breast to suckle whelp their daughter people my to/for cruel (for like/as ostrich *QK) in/on/with wilderness

4 The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them.

to cleave tongue to suckle to(wards) palate his in/on/with thirst infant to ask food to spread nothing to/for them

5 Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.

[the] to eat to/for delicacy be desolate: destroyed in/on/with outside [the] be faithful upon worm to embrace refuse

6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment. No hands were laid on her.

and to magnify iniquity: punishment daughter people my from sin: punishment Sodom [the] to overturn like moment and not to twist: tremble in/on/with her hand

7 Her nobles were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was like sapphire.

be clean Nazirite her from snow be dazzling from milk to redden bone: body from jewel sapphire cutting/separation their

8 Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like wood.

to darken from blackness appearance their not to recognize in/on/with outside to shrivel skin their upon bone their dry to be like/as tree: wood

9 Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through, for lack of the fruits of the field.

pleasant to be slain: killed sword from slain: killed famine which/that they(masc.) to flow: waste away to pierce from fruit field

10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

hand woman compassionate to boil youth their to be to/for to eat to/for them in/on/with breaking daughter people my

11 Yahweh has accomplished his wrath. He has poured out his fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.

to end: expend LORD [obj] rage his to pour: pour burning anger face: anger his and to kindle fire in/on/with Zion and to eat foundation her

12 The kings of the earth didn’t believe, neither did all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

not be faithful king land: country/planet (all *QK) to dwell world for to come (in): come enemy and enemy in/on/with gate Jerusalem

13 It is because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.

from sin prophet her iniquity: crime priest her [the] to pour: kill in/on/with entrails: among her blood righteous

14 They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, So that men can’t touch their garments.

to shake blind in/on/with outside to defile in/on/with blood in/on/with not be able to touch in/on/with clothing their

15 “Go away!” they cried to them. “Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, “They can’t live here any more.”

to turn aside: remove unclean to call: call out to/for them to turn aside: remove to turn aside: remove not to touch for to flee also to shake to say in/on/with nation not to add: again to/for to sojourn

16 Yahweh’s anger has scattered them. He will not pay attention to them any more. They didn’t respect the persons of the priests. They didn’t favor the elders.

face of LORD to divide them not to add: again to/for to look them face: kindness priest not to lift: kindness (and old: elder *QK) not be gracious

17 Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

(still we *QK) to end: expend eye our to(wards) help our vanity in/on/with watch our to watch to(wards) nation not to save

18 They hunt our steps, so that we can’t go in our streets. Our end is near. Our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.

to hunt step our from to go: walk in/on/with street/plaza our to present: come end our to fill day our for to come (in): come end our

19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky. They chased us on the mountains. They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.

swift to be to pursue us from eagle heaven upon [the] mountain: mount to burn/pursue us in/on/with wilderness to ambush to/for us

20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.

spirit: breath face: nose our anointed LORD to capture in/on/with pit their which to say in/on/with shadow his to live in/on/with nation

21 Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, who dwells in the land of Uz. The cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken, and will make yourself naked.

to rejoice and to rejoice daughter Edom (to dwell *Qk) in/on/with land: country/planet Uz also upon you to pass cup be drunk and to uncover

22 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion. He will no more carry you away into captivity. He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom. He will uncover your sins.

to finish iniquity: crime your daughter Zion not to add: again to/for to reveal: remove you to reckon: punish iniquity: crime your daughter Edom to reveal: reveal upon sin your