22 Behold, all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon and were saying,

(A)“‘Your trusted friends have deceived you
    and prevailed against you;
now that your feet are sunk in the mud,
    they turn away from you.’

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11 Women are raped in Zion,
    young women in the towns of Judah.

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(A)She weeps bitterly in the night,
    with tears on her cheeks;
(B)among all her lovers
    she has (C)none to comfort her;
(D)all her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
    they have become her enemies.

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(A)the men, the women, the children, (B)the princesses, and every person whom (C)Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with (D)Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan; also Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah.

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(A)Put no trust in a neighbor;
    have no confidence in a friend;
guard (B)the doors of your mouth
    from her who lies in your arms;[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 7:5 Hebrew bosom

13 “From on high he (A)sent fire;
    into my bones[a] he made it descend;
(B)he spread a net for my feet;
    he turned me back;
(C)he has left me stunned,
    faint all the day long.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:13 Septuagint; Hebrew bones and

10 Then Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, (A)the king's daughters and all the people who were left at Mizpah, whom (B)Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took them captive and set out to cross over to (C)the Ammonites.

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19 King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Judeans (A)who have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest I be handed over to them and they deal cruelly with me.”

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Then the officials said to the king, (A)“Let this man be put to death, (B)for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking (C)the welfare of this people, but their harm.” King Zedekiah said, “Behold, he is in your hands, (D)for the king can do nothing against you.” So they took Jeremiah (E)and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in (F)the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down (G)by ropes. (H)And there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and (I)Jeremiah sank in the mud.

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10 (A)For I hear many whispering.
    (B)Terror is on every side!
“Denounce him! (C)Let us denounce him!”
    say all my (D)close friends,
    (E)watching for (F)my fall.
“Perhaps he will be deceived;
    then (G)we can overcome him
    and take our revenge on him.”

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12 (A)Their houses shall be turned over to others,
    their fields and wives together,
for I will stretch out my hand
    against the inhabitants of the land,”
declares the Lord.

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17 (A)They are turned back and utterly put to shame,
    who trust in carved idols,
who say to metal images,
    “You are our gods.”

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14 Deliver me
    from sinking in (A)the mire;
(B)let me be delivered from my enemies
    and from (C)the deep waters.

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I sink in deep (A)mire,
    where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters,
    and the flood (B)sweeps over me.

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Even my (A)close friend in whom I trusted,
    who (B)ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.

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21 Even her hired soldiers in her midst
    are like (A)fattened calves;
yes, they have turned and fled together;
    they did not stand,
for the day of their calamity has come upon them,
    (B)the time of their punishment.

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Why have I seen it?
They are dismayed
    and have turned backward.
Their (A)warriors are beaten down
    and have fled in haste;
(B)they look not back—
    (C)terror on every side!
declares the Lord.

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