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Lamentations 4:5-7
English Standard Version
Lamentations 4:5-7
English Standard Version
5 Those who once feasted on delicacies
perish in the streets;
(A)those who were brought up in purple
embrace ash heaps.
6 (B)For the chastisement[a] of the daughter of my people has been greater
than the punishment[b] of Sodom,
(C)which was overthrown in a moment,
and no hands were wrung for her.[c]
7 Her princes were purer than snow,
whiter than milk;
their bodies were more ruddy than coral,
the beauty of their form[d] was like sapphire.[e]
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:6 Or iniquity
- Lamentations 4:6 Or sin
- Lamentations 4:6 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
- Lamentations 4:7 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
- Lamentations 4:7 Hebrew lapis lazuli
English Standard Version (ESV)
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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