Lamentations 4
1 how? to darken gold to change [the] gold [the] pleasant to pour: scatter stone holiness in/on/with head: top all outside
Oh how is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! how are the stones of the sanctuary poured out at the corners of every street.
2 son: descendant/people Zion [the] precious [the] to weigh in/on/with pure gold how? to devise: count to/for bag earthenware deed: work hand to form: potter
The precious sons of Zion, valued equal to pure gold, how are they now esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
3 also (jackal *Q(K)*) to rescue breast to suckle whelp their daughter people my to/for cruel (for like/as ostrich *Q(K)*) in/on/with wilderness
Even wild beasts offer the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4 to cleave tongue to suckle to(wards) (palate his *L(abh)*) in/on/with thirst infant to ask food to spread nothing to/for them
The tongue of the suckling cleaveth to its palate by reason of thirst: babes ask for bread, there is not one to break it for them.
5 [the] to eat to/for delicacy be desolate: destroyed in/on/with outside [the] be faithful upon worm to embrace refuse
Those that used to eat dainty food are desolate in the streets: they that were reared up on scarlet now embrace dunghills.
6 and to magnify iniquity: punishment daughter people my from sin: punishment Sodom [the] to overturn like moment and not to twist: tremble in/on/with her hand
For greater is the iniquity of the daughter of my people than the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as it were in a moment, and no human hands were laid on her.
7 be clean Nazirite her from snow be dazzling from milk to redden bone: body from jewel sapphire cutting/separation their
Her crowned princes were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more brilliant in body than pearls, more than the sapphire, their countenance:
8 to darken from blackness appearance their not to recognize in/on/with outside to shrivel skin their upon bone their dry to be like/as tree: wood
Darker than black is now their visage; they are not to be recognized in the streets: their skin is shriveled fast upon their bones; it is dry, it is become like wood.
9 pleasant to be slain: killed sword from slain: killed famine which/that they(masc.) to flow: waste away to pierce from fruit field
Happier are those slain by the sword than those slain by hunger; for those poured forth their blood, being pierced through, —[these perished] without the fruits of the field.
10 hand woman compassionate to boil youth their to be to/for to eat to/for them in/on/with breaking daughter people my
The hands of merciful women cooked their own children: they became food unto them in the downfall of the daughter of my people.
11 to end: expend LORD [obj] rage his to pour: pour burning anger face: anger his and to kindle fire in/on/with Zion and to eat foundation her
The Lord hath let loose all his fury: he hath poured out the fierceness of his anger: and he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured her foundations.
12 not be faithful king land: country/planet (all *Q(K)*) to dwell world for to come (in): come enemy and enemy in/on/with gate Jerusalem
The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not believe that an adversary or an enemy could ever enter within the gates of Jerusalem.
13 from sin prophet her iniquity: crime priest her [the] to pour: kill in/on/with entrails: among her blood righteous
[But it hath happened] because of the sins of her prophets, the iniquities of her priests, that had shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.
14 to shake blind in/on/with outside to defile in/on/with blood in/on/with not be able to touch in/on/with clothing their
They wandered about blindly in the streets, they became defiled with blood; so that men were not able to touch their garments.
15 to turn aside: remove unclean to call: call out to/for them to turn aside: remove to turn aside: remove not to touch for to flee also to shake to say in/on/with nation not to add: again to/for to sojourn
Depart, ye unclean, they called out unto them: depart, depart, touch not. So they flee away and also wander about: men say among the nations, They shall no more sojourn there.
16 face of LORD to divide them not to add: again to/for to look them face: kindness priest not to lift: kindness (and old: elder *Q(K)*) not be gracious
The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he will no more look at them: the faces of the priests they respected not, and the elders they spared not.
17 (still we *Q(K)*) to end: expend eye our to(wards) help our vanity in/on/with watch our to watch to(wards) nation not to save
Even now our eyes anxiously wait for our valueless help: in our waiting have we waited for a nation that cannot help.
18 to hunt step our from to go: walk in/on/with street/plaza our to present: come end our to fill day our for to come (in): come end our
They hunt our steps, that we cannot walk in our streets: our end is near, our days are full: for our end is come.
19 swift to be to pursue us from eagle heaven upon [the] mountain: mount to burn/pursue us in/on/with wilderness to ambush to/for us
Swifter were our pursuers than the eagles of heaven: upon the mountains did they hotly follow us: in the wilderness did they lie in wait for us.
20 spirit: breath face: nose our anointed LORD to capture in/on/with pit their which to say in/on/with shadow his to live in/on/with nation
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was caught in their pits, he, of whom we said, Under his shadow shall we live among the nations.
21 to rejoice and to rejoice daughter Edom (to dwell *Q(K)*) in/on/with land: country/planet Uz also upon you to pass cup be drunk and to uncover
Be glad and rejoice, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of 'Uz: also unto thee shall the cup pass; thou wilt be drunken, and make thyself naked.
22 to finish iniquity: crime your daughter Zion not to add: again to/for to reveal: remove you to reckon: punish iniquity: crime your daughter Edom to reveal: reveal upon sin your
Brought to an end is thy iniquity, O daughter of Zion; He will no more carry thee away into exile: He visiteth thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom; He layeth open thy sins.
