1How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! The hallowed stones are cast forth at the head of every street.

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Ezekiel 7:19, Ezekiel 7:22, Ezekiel 7:19, Ezekiel 7:22, Lamentations 2:19

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

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Isaiah 30:14, Isaiah 30:14, Jeremiah 19:11, Romans 9:21, Romans 9:23

3The very jackals reach forth the breast; they suckle their young; But the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches of the desert.

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Ezekiel 5:10, Ezekiel 5:10, Luke 23:28, Luke 23:29, Lamentations 2:20

4The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; Young children ask for bread, and no man breaketh it for them.

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Psalms 22:15, Psalms 22:15, Lamentations 2:11, Lamentations 2:12, Lamentations 2:11

5Those that fed on dainties are desolate in the streets; Those that have been brought up in scarlet embrace the dunghill.

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Amos 6:3, Amos 6:7, Luke 16:19, Luke 15:16, Amos 6:3

6The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of Sodom, Which was overthrown in a moment, though no hands came against her.

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Genesis 19:25, Genesis 19:25, Luke 10:12, Luke 10:12, Luke 12:47

7Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; More ruddy than coral was their body; Their visage was of sapphire.

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Psalms 51:7, Psalms 51:7, Song of Solomon 5:10, Song of Solomon 5:10, Psalms 144:12

8Now darker than a coal is their countenance; they are not known in the streets. Their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is become dry, like wood.

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Psalms 102:3, Psalms 102:5, Lamentations 5:10, Job 30:30, Psalms 102:3

9More fortunate are the slain by the sword than the slain by famine; For these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

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Ezekiel 24:23, Leviticus 26:39, Ezekiel 24:23, Leviticus 26:39, Ezekiel 33:10

10The hands of tender-hearted women cooked their own children; They were their food, in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Lamentations 2:20, 2 Kings 6:26, 2 Kings 6:29, Isaiah 49:15, Lamentations 2:20

11Jehovah hath spent upon them his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger; He hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured its foundations.

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Jeremiah 7:20, Ezekiel 22:31, Jeremiah 7:20, Ezekiel 22:31, Jeremiah 17:27

12The kings of the earth believed not, nor all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary would enter, and the enemy, within the gates of Jerusalem.

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Deuteronomy 29:24, Deuteronomy 29:28, Jeremiah 21:13, 1 Kings 9:8, 1 Kings 9:9

13It was on account of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, Who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.

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Jeremiah 5:31, Jeremiah 5:31, Jeremiah 6:13, Jeremiah 6:13, Jeremiah 26:8

14They stumbled like blind men through the streets, polluted with blood, So that men could not touch their garments.

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Jeremiah 2:34, Jeremiah 2:34, Deuteronomy 28:28, Deuteronomy 28:29, Isaiah 56:10

15"Depart! unclean!" men cried to them. "Depart, depart, touch not!" As they fled, they stumbled; men said among the nations, "They shall dwell there no more."

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Leviticus 13:45, Leviticus 13:46, Leviticus 13:45, Leviticus 13:46

16The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; he will no more care for them; They paid no regard to the priests, they had no compassion for the elders.

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Lamentations 5:12, Isaiah 9:14, Isaiah 9:16, Lamentations 5:12, Isaiah 9:14

17Still did our eyes fail, looking for help in vain; On our watch-tower did we watch for a nation that could not save us.

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Ezekiel 29:16, Ezekiel 29:16, 2 Kings 24:7, Isaiah 20:5, 2 Kings 24:7

18They laid snares for our steps, so that we could not go in our streets; Our end is near; our days are accomplished, yea, our end is come!

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Amos 8:2, Amos 8:2, Ezekiel 7:2, Ezekiel 7:12, Ezekiel 7:2

19Swifter were our pursuers than the eagles of heaven; They chased us upon the mountains; they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

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Jeremiah 4:13, Habakkuk 1:8, Jeremiah 4:13, Habakkuk 1:8, Isaiah 5:26

20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits, Under whose shadow we said that we should live among the nations.

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Ezekiel 12:13, Genesis 2:7, 2 Samuel 19:21, Jeremiah 39:5, Ezekiel 12:13

21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz! Yet to thee also shall the cup come! thou shalt be drunken, and shalt expose thy nakedness.

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Job 1:1, Amos 1:11, Revelation 16:15, Job 1:1, Amos 1:11

22Thy punishment is at an end, O daughter of Zion! no more will he carry thee into captivity; But thine iniquity will he punish, O daughter of Edom! he will uncover thy sins.

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Isaiah 40:2, Isaiah 40:2, Jeremiah 50:20, Psalms 137:7, Jeremiah 50:20