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  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
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    "language": "en",
    "book": "lamentations",
    "chapter": 4
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 4,
    "bookSlug": "lamentations",
    "bookCode": "LAM",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "LAM-4:1",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.1",
        "text": "How the gold has become dim!\nThe most pure gold has changed!\nThe stones of the sanctuary are poured out\nat the head of every street."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "LAM-4:2",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.2",
        "text": "The precious sons of Zion,\ncomparable to fine gold,\nhow are they esteemed as earthen pitchers,\nthe work of the hands of the potter!"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "LAM-4:3",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.3",
        "text": "Even the jackals offer their breast.\nThey nurse their young ones.\nBut the daughter of my people has become cruel,\nlike the ostriches in the wilderness."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "LAM-4:4",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.4",
        "text": "The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst.\nThe young children ask bread,\nand no one breaks it for them."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "LAM-4:5",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.5",
        "text": "Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets.\nThose who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "LAM-4:6",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.6",
        "text": "For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom,\nwhich was overthrown as in a moment.\nNo hands were laid on her."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "LAM-4:7",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.7",
        "text": "Her nobles were purer than snow.\nThey were whiter than milk.\nThey were more ruddy in body than rubies.\nTheir polishing was like sapphire."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "LAM-4:8",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.8",
        "text": "Their appearance is blacker than a coal.\nThey are not known in the streets.\nTheir skin clings to their bones.\nIt is withered.\nIt has become like a stick."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "LAM-4:9",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.9",
        "text": "Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger;\nFor these pine away, stricken through,\nfor lack of the fruits of the field."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "LAM-4:10",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.10",
        "text": "The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children.\nThey were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "LAM-4:11",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.11",
        "text": "Yahweh has accomplished his wrath.\nHe has poured out his fierce anger.\nHe has kindled a fire in Zion,\nwhich has devoured its foundations."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "LAM-4:12",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.12",
        "text": "The kings of the earth didn’t believe,\nneither did all the inhabitants of the world,\nthat the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "LAM-4:13",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.13",
        "text": "It is because of the sins of her prophets\nand the iniquities of her priests,\nThat have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "LAM-4:14",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.14",
        "text": "They wander as blind men in the streets.\nThey are polluted with blood,\nSo that men can’t touch their garments."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "LAM-4:15",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.15",
        "text": "“Go away!” they cried to them.\n“Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch!\nWhen they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations,\n“They can’t live here any more.”"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "LAM-4:16",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.16",
        "text": "Yahweh’s anger has scattered them.\nHe will not pay attention to them any more.\nThey didn’t respect the persons of the priests.\nThey didn’t favor the elders."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "LAM-4:17",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.17",
        "text": "Our eyes still fail,\nlooking in vain for our help.\nIn our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "LAM-4:18",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.18",
        "text": "They hunt our steps,\nso that we can’t go in our streets.\nOur end is near.\nOur days are fulfilled,\nfor our end has come."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "LAM-4:19",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.19",
        "text": "Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky.\nThey chased us on the mountains.\nThey set an ambush for us in the wilderness."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "LAM-4:20",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.20",
        "text": "The breath of our nostrils,\nthe anointed of Yahweh,\nwas taken in their pits;\nof whom we said,\nunder his shadow we will live among the nations."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "LAM-4:21",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.21",
        "text": "Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom,\nthat dwells in the land of Uz.\nThe cup will pass through to you also.\nYou will be drunken,\nand will make yourself naked."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "LAM-4:22",
        "verseRef": "LAM.4.22",
        "text": "The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion.\nHe will no more carry you away into captivity.\nHe will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom.\nHe will uncover your sins."
      }
    ]
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