Lamentations 4 BSB

  1. 🌐 Home
  2. BSB Bible
  3. Lamentations 4

Old Testament

Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Joshua Judges Ruth 1 Samuel 2 Samuel 1 Kings 2 Kings 1 Chronicles 2 Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah Esther Job Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of Solomon Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi

New Testament

Matthew Mark Luke John Acts Romans 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians 1 Thessalonians 2 Thessalonians 1 Timothy 2 Timothy Titus Philemon Hebrews James 1 Peter 2 Peter 1 John 2 John 3 John Jude Revelation

Chapter

Lamentations 1 Lamentations 2 Lamentations 3 Lamentations 4 Lamentations 5

Verse

Lamentations 4:1 Lamentations 4:2 Lamentations 4:3 Lamentations 4:4 Lamentations 4:5 Lamentations 4:6 Lamentations 4:7 Lamentations 4:8 Lamentations 4:9 Lamentations 4:10 Lamentations 4:11 Lamentations 4:12 Lamentations 4:13 Lamentations 4:14 Lamentations 4:15 Lamentations 4:16 Lamentations 4:17 Lamentations 4:18 Lamentations 4:19 Lamentations 4:20 Lamentations 4:21 Lamentations 4:22
« Lamentations 3
Lamentations 5 »
Lamentations 4:1 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:1 (BSB)
How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.
Lamentations 4:2 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:2 (BSB)
How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
Lamentations 4:3 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:3 (BSB)
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
Lamentations 4:4 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:4 (BSB)
The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
Lamentations 4:5 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:5 (BSB)
Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
Lamentations 4:6 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:6 (BSB)
The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.
Lamentations 4:7 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:7 (BSB)
Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.
Lamentations 4:8 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:8 (BSB)
But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
Lamentations 4:9 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:9 (BSB)
Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.
Lamentations 4:10 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:10 (BSB)
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 4:11 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:11 (BSB)
The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.
Lamentations 4:12 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:12 (BSB)
The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
Lamentations 4:13 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:13 (BSB)
But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.
Lamentations 4:14 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:14 (BSB)
They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.
Lamentations 4:15 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:15 (BSB)
“Go away! Unclean!” men shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” So they fled and wandered. Among the nations it was said, “They can stay here no longer.”
Lamentations 4:16 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:16 (BSB)
The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.
Lamentations 4:17 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:17 (BSB)
All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
Lamentations 4:18 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:18 (BSB)
They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!
Lamentations 4:19 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:19 (BSB)
Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.
Lamentations 4:20 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:20 (BSB)
The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”
Lamentations 4:21 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:21 (BSB)
So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.
Lamentations 4:22 BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 4:22 (BSB)
O Daughter of Zion, your punishment is complete; He will not prolong your exile. But He will punish your iniquity, O Daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.
Previous Chapter
« Lamentations 3
Next Chapter
Lamentations 5 »

Lamentations (BSB) Chapter Selection

1 2 3 4 5

BSB Book Selection List

View full list of BSB Bible Books and Chapters