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Lamentations 4:2-4
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Lamentations 4:2-4
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2 Jerusalem's men were valuable, like the best gold.[a]
Now they lie in the streets, because God has broken them.
They are like common pots that a potter makes.[b]
3 Even the jackals feed their babies at their breasts.
But Jerusalem's young women have become cruel.
They are like ostriches that leave their eggs in the desert.[c]
4 The mouths of the babies in Jerusalem are completely dry, because they are so thirsty.
And the young children ask for food, but nobody gives them anything to eat.
Footnotes
- 4:2 Jerusalem's people were valuable to God, as gold is valuable. Perhaps the ‘valuable stones’ from the Holy Place were like Jerusalem's leaders and priests. Certainly the enemy had destroyed and burnt the Holy Place there. They broke the beautiful stones from its walls, and those stones were lying in the street.
- 4:2 People did not think that ordinary pots were valuable.
- 4:3 Ostriches are large birds that lay their eggs in the sand. See Job 39:14-16.
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