41How the gold has become dim!The most pure gold has changed!The stones of the sanctuary are poured outat the head of every street.+2The precious sons of Zion,comparable to fine gold,how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers,the work of the hands of the potter!+3Even 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.+4The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst.The young children ask bread,and no one breaks it for them.+5Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets.Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.+6For 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.+7Her nobles were purer than snow.They were whiter than milk.They were more ruddy in body than rubies.Their polishing was like sapphire.+8Their 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 a stick.+9Those 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.+10The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children.They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.+11Yahweh has accomplished his wrath.He has poured out his fierce anger.He has kindled a fire in Zion,which has devoured its foundations.+12The 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.+13It is because of the sins of her prophetsand the iniquities of her priests,That have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.+14They wander as blind men in the streets.They are polluted with blood,So that men can’t touch their garments.+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.”+16Yahweh’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.+17Our eyes still fail,looking in vain for our help.In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.+18They 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.+19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky.They chased us on the mountains.They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.+20The 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.+21Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom,that dwells in the land of Uz.The cup will pass through to you also.You will be drunken,and will make yourself naked.+22The 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.+
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