Lamentations 4:1
New Living Translation
God’s Anger Satisfied
4 How the gold has lost its luster!
Even the finest gold has become dull.
The sacred gemstones
lie scattered in the streets!
Lamentations 4:1
New American Standard Bible
Distress of the Siege Described
4 How (A)dark the gold has become,
How the pure gold has changed!
The sacred stones are spilled out
At the [a]corner of every street.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:1 Lit head
Lamentations 4:12-13
New Living Translation
12 Not a king in all the earth—
no one in all the world—
would have believed that an enemy
could march through the gates of Jerusalem.
13 Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets
and the sins of her priests,
who defiled the city
by shedding innocent blood.
Lamentations 4:12-13
New American Standard Bible
12 The kings of the earth did not believe,
Nor did any of (A)the inhabitants of the world,
That the adversary and the enemy
Would (B)enter the gates of Jerusalem.
13 Because of the sins of her (C)prophets
And the wrongdoings of her priests,
Who have shed in her midst
The (D)blood of the righteous,
Lamentations 4:17
New Living Translation
17 We looked in vain for our allies
to come and save us,
but we were looking to nations
that could not help us.
Lamentations 4:17
New American Standard Bible
17 Yet our eyes failed,
Looking for [a]help was (A)useless;
At our observation point we have watched
For a (B)nation that could not save.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:17 Lit our help
Lamentations 4:20
New Living Translation
20 Our king—the Lord’s anointed, the very life of our nation—
was caught in their snares.
We had thought that his shadow
would protect us against any nation on earth!
Lamentations 4:20
New American Standard Bible
20 The (A)breath of our nostrils, the (B)Lord’s anointed,
Was (C)captured in their pits,
Of whom we had said, “[a]In his (D)shadow
We shall live among the nations.”
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:20 I.e., under his protection
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