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Lamentations 4:7-9
New Living Translation
Lamentations 4:7-9
New Living Translation
7 Our princes once glowed with health—
brighter than snow, whiter than milk.
Their faces were as ruddy as rubies,
their appearance like fine jewels.[a]
8 But now their faces are blacker than soot.
No one recognizes them in the streets.
Their skin sticks to their bones;
it is as dry and hard as wood.
9 Those killed by the sword are better off
than those who die of hunger.
Starving, they waste away
for lack of food from the fields.
Footnotes
- 4:7 Hebrew like lapis lazuli.
New Living Translation (NLT)
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