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Lamentations 3:51

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

My eyes bring me grief because of the fate of all the women in my city.

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Women have been raped in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.


Both young and old are lying on the ground in the streets. My young women and young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger, slaughtering without compassion.


The Lord is just, for I have rebelled against his command. Listen, all you people; look at my pain. My young women and young men have gone into captivity.


I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other’s flesh in the distressing siege inflicted on them by their enemies who intend to take their life.”


If I go out to the field, look #– #those slain by the sword! If I enter the city, look #– #those ill  from famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.


The people they are prophesying to will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. There will be no one to bury them   #– #they, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. I will pour out their own evil on them.’


Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies says: ‘I am about to punish them. The young men will die by the sword; their sons and daughters will die by famine.


For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the grief that would overwhelm my father.’


My eyes are worn out from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief  , because of the destruction of my dear people, because infants and nursing babies faint in the streets of the city.


until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees.


For no reason, my enemies hunted me like a bird.





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