They said to me, “Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.(A)

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And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

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And they said to me, “The survivors who are left from the captivity in the (A)province are there in great distress and (B)reproach. (C)The wall of Jerusalem (D)is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

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12 Why have you broken down its walls(A)
    so that all who pass by pick its grapes?

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12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

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12 Why have You (A)broken down her [a]hedges,
So that all who pass by the way pluck her fruit?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 80:12 walls or fences

The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day(A)
    of tumult and trampling(B) and terror(C)
    in the Valley of Vision,(D)
a day of battering down walls(E)
    and of crying out to the mountains.

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For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.

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(A)For it is a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity
(B)By the Lord God of hosts
In the Valley of Vision—
Breaking down the walls
And of crying to the mountain.

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The Lord determined to tear down
    the wall around Daughter Zion.(A)
He stretched out a measuring line(B)
    and did not withhold his hand from destroying.
He made ramparts(C) and walls lament;
    together they wasted away.(D)

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The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

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The Lord has [a]purposed to destroy
The (A)wall of the daughter of Zion.
(B)He has stretched out a line;
He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying;
Therefore He has caused the rampart and wall to lament;
They languished together.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:8 determined