Lamentations 4

1 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold 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 are they 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 sea monsters draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: the daughter of my people is 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 cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it to 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 They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet 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 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, with no hands 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 Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:

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

8 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.

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 They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain 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 tenderhearted 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 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath 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, 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.

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 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,

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

14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not 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 They cried to 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.

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 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no longer regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not 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 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.

(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, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is 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 persecutors are swifter than the eagles of heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait 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 the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

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, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through to thee: thou shalt be drunk, and shalt make thyself 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 thy iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will disclose thy 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