耶利米哀歌 4:7-9

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)

⁷錫安的首領曾比雪純淨，
比奶更白，
身體比紅寶石更紅潤，
相貌美如藍寶石。

⁸現在，他們的面目比煤炭還黑，
走在街上無人認得。
他們骨瘦如柴，乾如枯木。

⁹死於刀下的勝過死於饑餓的，
後者因田間缺糧而活活餓死。

Lamentations 4:7-9

King James Version

⁷Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:

⁸Their 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.

⁹They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

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Lamentations 4:7-9

New International Version

⁷Their princes were brighter than snow
and whiter than milk,
their bodies more ruddy than rubies,
their appearance like lapis lazuli.

⁸But now they are blacker^(A) than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;^(B)
it has become as dry as a stick.

⁹Those killed by the sword are better off
than those who die of famine;^(C)
racked with hunger, they waste away
for lack of food from the field.^(D)

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