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The Prophet Speaks Out: Zion’s Suffering Was Worse Than Sodom’s

[a]“Look how the gold has become tarnished!
    The fine gold has changed!
    The sacred stones are scattered at every street corner.

“Zion’s precious children, who are worth their weight in fine gold,
    are now treated like clay pots,
        like those made by a potter’s hands.
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young,
    but the women of my people are as cruel as wild ostriches.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:1 Chapter 4 is a poem in Hebrew alphabetical order.

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