Lamentations 1:8 References
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Jerusalem sinned agreatly, Therefore bshe has become an unclean thing. All who honored her despise her Because they have seen her nakedness; Even cshe herself groans and turns away.
a Isaiah 59:2-13, Lamentations 1:5, Lamentations 1:20
Isaiah 59
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But your ainiquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does bnot hear.
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For your ahands are defiled with blood And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken bfalsehood, Your tongue mutters wickedness.
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aNo one sues righteously and bno one pleads honestly. They ctrust in confusion and speak lies; They dconceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
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They hatch adders' eggs and aweave the spider's web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.
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Their webs will not become clothing, Nor will they acover themselves with their works; Their bworks are works of iniquity, And an cact of violence is in their hands.
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aTheir feet run to evil, And they hasten to shed innocent blood; bTheir thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Devastation and destruction are in their highways.
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They do not know the away of peace, And there is bno justice in their tracks; They have made their paths crooked, cWhoever treads on them does not know peace.
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Therefore ajustice is far from us, And righteousness does not overtake us; We bhope for light, but behold, darkness, For brightness, but we walk in gloom.
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We agrope along the wall like blind men, We grope like those who have no eyes; We bstumble at midday as in the twilight, Among those who are vigorous we are clike dead men.
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All of us growl like bears, And amoan sadly like doves; We hope for bjustice, but there is none, For salvation, but it is far from us.
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For our atransgressions are multiplied before You, And our bsins testify against us; For our transgressions are with us, And we know our iniquities:
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Transgressing and adenying the Lord, And turning away from our God, Speaking boppression and revolt, Conceiving in and cuttering from the heart lying words.
Lamentations 1
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Her adversaries have become her masters, Her enemies prosper; For the Lord has acaused her grief Because of the multitude of her transgressions; Her little ones have gone away As captives before the adversary.