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         <div class="label">52</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Fall of Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.52.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother&#8217;s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.52.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, just as Jehoiakim had done. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.52.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It was because of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anger that all this happened to Jerusalem and Judah, and in the end he thrust them from his presence.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.52.3"><span class="content">Now Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.52.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.52.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So in the ninth year of Zedekiah&#8217;s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. They encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.52.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.52.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.52.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.52.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then the city wall was broken through, and the whole army fled. They left the city at night through the gate between the two walls near the king&#8217;s garden, though the Babylonians</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">52:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 17</span></span></span><span class="content"> were surrounding the city. They fled toward the Arabah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">52:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Jordan Valley</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.52.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">but the Babylonian</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">52:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldean</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 14</span></span></span><span class="content"> army pursued King Zedekiah and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.52.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">and he was captured.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.52.9"><span class="content">He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced sentence on him. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.52.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">There at Riblah the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he also killed all the officials of Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.52.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then he put out Zedekiah&#8217;s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon, where he put him in prison till the day of his death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.52.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.52.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.52.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He set fire to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.52.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The whole Babylonian army, under the commander of the imperial guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.52.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the rest of the craftsmen</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">52:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the populace</span></span></span><span class="content"> and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.52.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But Nebuzaradan left behind the rest of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.52.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.52.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and they carried all the bronze to Babylon. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.52.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and all the bronze articles used in the temple service. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.52.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The commander of the imperial guard took away the basins, censers, sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands, dishes and bowls used for drink offerings&#8212;all that were made of pure gold or silver.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.52.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.52.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands, which King Solomon had made for the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, was more than could be weighed. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.52.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Each pillar was eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">52:21 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 27 feet high and 18 feet in circumference or about 8.1 meters high and 5.4 meters in circumference</span></span></span><span class="content">; each was four fingers thick, and hollow. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.52.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The bronze capital on top of one pillar was five cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">52:22 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.52.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; the total number of pomegranates above the surrounding network was a hundred.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.52.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.52.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.52.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and seven royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land, sixty of whom were found in the city. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.52.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Nebuzaradan the commander took them all and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.52.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.52.27"><span class="content">So Judah went into captivity, away from her land. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.52.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">This is the number of the people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile:</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.52.28"></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.52.28"><span class="content">in the seventh year,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.52.28"><span class="content">3,023 Jews;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.52.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.52.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">in Nebuchadnezzar&#8217;s eighteenth year,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.52.29"><span class="content">832 people from Jerusalem;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.52.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.52.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">in his twenty-third year,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.52.30"><span class="content">745 Jews taken into exile by Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard.</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.52.30"><span class="content">There were 4,600 people in all.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jehoiachin Released</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.52.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JER.52.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah and freed him from prison. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JER.52.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JER.52.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king&#8217;s table. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JER.52.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Day by day the king of Babylon gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived, till the day of his death.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="q1"><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft">This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.</span><span class="ft"> </span></span></span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">How the gold has lost its luster,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">the fine gold become dull!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">The sacred gems are scattered</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">at every street corner.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">How the precious children of Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">once worth their weight in gold,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">are now considered as pots of clay,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">the work of a potter&#8217;s hands!</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Even jackals offer their breasts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">to nurse their young,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">but my people have become heartless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">like ostriches in the desert.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Because of thirst the infant&#8217;s tongue</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">sticks to the roof of its mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">the children beg for bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">but no one gives it to them.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Those who once ate delicacies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">are destitute in the streets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">Those brought up in royal purple</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">now lie on ash heaps.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The punishment of my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">is greater than that of Sodom,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">which was overthrown in a moment</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">without a hand turned to help her.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Their princes were brighter than snow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">and whiter than milk,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">their bodies more ruddy than rubies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">their appearance like lapis lazuli.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But now they are blacker than soot;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">they are not recognized in the streets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">Their skin has shriveled on their bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">it has become as dry as a stick.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Those killed by the sword are better off</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">than those who die of famine;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">racked with hunger, they waste away</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">for lack of food from the field.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">With their own hands compassionate women</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">have cooked their own children,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">who became their food</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">when my people were destroyed.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given full vent to his wrath;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">he has poured out his fierce anger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">He kindled a fire in Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">that consumed her foundations.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The kings of the earth did not believe,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">nor did any of the peoples of the world,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">that enemies and foes could enter</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">the gates of Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But it happened because of the sins of her prophets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">and the iniquities of her priests,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">who shed within her</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">the blood of the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Now they grope through the streets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">as if they were blind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">They are so defiled with blood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">that no one dares to touch their garments.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go away! You are unclean!&#8221; people cry to them.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Away! Away! Don&#8217;t touch us!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">When they flee and wander about,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">people among the nations say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">&#8220;They can stay here no longer.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself has scattered them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">he no longer watches over them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">The priests are shown no honor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">the elders no favor.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Moreover, our eyes failed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">looking in vain for help;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">from our towers we watched</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">for a nation that could not save us.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">People stalked us at every step,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">so we could not walk in our streets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">Our end was near, our days were numbered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">for our end had come.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Our pursuers were swifter</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">than eagles in the sky;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">they chased us over the mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">and lay in wait for us in the desert.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anointed, our very life breath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">was caught in their traps.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">We thought that under his shadow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">we would live among the nations.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Rejoice and be glad, Daughter Edom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">you who live in the land of Uz.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">But to you also the cup will be passed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">you will be drunk and stripped naked.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Your punishment will end, Daughter Zion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="content">he will not prolong your exile.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="content">But he will punish your sin, Daughter Edom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="content">and expose your wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"></span></div>
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