>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/lam/4?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#07d04::c07d04) | [Bible Hub](https://biblehub.com/lamentations/4.htm) | [Inline JST](https://scripturetoolbox.com/html/ic/Lamentations/4.html) | [Strong's](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/lam/4/1/ss1/) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>Jeremiah laments the destruction of Jerusalem and the suffering of its people, speaking to the Israelites about the consequences of their sins and the eventual judgment of Edom. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>The people are very sad because they used to have nice things, but now everything is broken and they are very hungry. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>The chapter mourns the fall of Jerusalem, emphasizing the drastic change from prosperity to devastation. It describes the suffering of the people, including children and the once-pure Nazarites, due to the city's destruction and the sins of its leaders. It concludes with a message that although Zion's suffering will end, Edom will face judgment for its sins. > >#Gospel/Judgment #Gospel/Repentance #Gospel/Suffering ###### 1 1 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. ###### 2 2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! ###### 3 3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. ###### 4 4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them. ###### 5 5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. ###### 6 6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. ###### 7 7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: ###### 8 8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. ###### 9 9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field. ###### 10 10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. ###### 11 11 The Lord hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof. ###### 12 12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem. ###### 13 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, ###### 14 14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. ###### 15 15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there. ###### 16 16 The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders. ###### 17 17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us. ###### 18 18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. ###### 19 19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. ###### 20 20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen. ###### 21 21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. ###### 22 22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.