17 The Lord has done what he purposed;
    he has carried out (A)his word,
which he commanded (B)long ago;
    (C)he has thrown down (D)without pity;
(E)he has made the enemy rejoice over you
    and exalted the (F)might of your foes.

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17 The Lord has done what he planned;
    he has fulfilled(A) his word,
    which he decreed long ago.(B)
He has overthrown you without pity,(C)
    he has let the enemy gloat over you,(D)
    he has exalted the horn[a] of your foes.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:17 Horn here symbolizes strength.

17 The Lord hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

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21 In the dust of the streets
    (A)lie the young and the old;
(B)my young women and my young men
    have fallen by the sword;
(C)you have killed them in the day of your anger,
    slaughtering (D)without pity.

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21 “Young and old lie together
    in the dust of the streets;
my young men and young women
    have fallen by the sword.(A)
You have slain them in the day of your anger;
    you have slaughtered them without pity.(B)

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21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

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43 “You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us,
    (A)killing without pity;

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43 “You have covered yourself with anger and pursued(A) us;
    you have slain without pity.(B)

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43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

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And to (A)the others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him, and strike. (B)Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity.

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As I listened, he said to the others, “Follow him through the city and kill, without showing pity(A) or compassion.(B)

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And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:

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10 As for me, (A)my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; (B)I will bring their deeds upon their heads.”

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10 So I will not look on them with pity(A) or spare them, but I will bring down on their own heads what they have done.(B)

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10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.

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