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Lamentations 4:20-22
EasyEnglish Bible
Lamentations 4:20-22
EasyEnglish Bible
20 The Lord had chosen a man to be our king.
We thought that he would save us.
‘Under his shadow we will live among the other countries,’ we had always said.
But the enemy caught him.[a]
21 You, Edom's people, live in the country called Uz. And you are happy now.
But at a future time, God will hurt you too.
The enemy will take away everything that you have.
So you will become like drunks.
22 God has finished punishing Zion's people.
He will let them return to their homes soon.
But you, Edom's people, God will certainly punish you.[b]
He will discover everything that you have done wrong.
Footnotes
- 4:20 Nobody could help them if God was against them. The king was Zedekiah. He was the last king of Judah. Jeremiah tells us about him in the other book that he wrote. (See Jeremiah 39:1-8.) Israel's people thought that their kings were very special. They thought that God had given those kings to them.
- 4:22 God will punish Edom's people because they have been cruel to God's people. Edom's people did all die. There is no country called Edom now.
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