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Lamentations 4:2-4
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Lamentations 4:2-4
Easy-to-Read Version
2 The precious people of Zion
were once worth more than gold.
But now they are treated like something worthless,
like the cheap clay jars a potter makes.
3 Even a wild dog feeds her babies.
Even the jackal lets her pups suck at her breast.
But the daughter of my people[a] is cruel.
She is like the ostrich in the desert that forgets its eggs in the sand.
4 Babies are so thirsty
their tongues stick to the roof of their mouths.
Young children ask for bread,
but no one gives them any.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:3 daughter of my people Another name for Jerusalem. Also in verse 6.
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