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Lamentations 4:22

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Daughter Zion, your punishment is complete; he will not lengthen your exile. But he will punish your iniquity, Daughter Edom, and will expose your sins.

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‘Speak tenderly to   Jerusalem, and announce to her that her time of hard service is over, her iniquity  has been pardoned, and she has received from the  Lord’s hand double for all her sins.’


In those days and at that time – this is the  Lord’s declaration – one will search for Israel’s iniquity, but there will be none, and for Judah’s sins, but they will not be found, for I will forgive  those I leave as a remnant.


Though Edom says, ‘We have been devastated, but we will rebuild  the ruins,’ the Lord of Armies says this: ‘They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country  and the people the Lord has cursed  for ever.


When my sanctuary is among them for ever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.” ’


So rejoice and be glad, Daughter Edom, you resident of the land of Uz! Yet the cup  will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.


The punishment of my dear people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand laid on it.


I will purify them from all the iniquity they have committed against me,  and I will forgive all the iniquities they have committed against me, rebelling against me.


‘I will make a permanent covenant with them:  I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put fear of me in their hearts so that they will never again turn away from me.


Violence will never again be heard of in your land; devastation and destruction will be gone from your borders. You will call your walls Salvation and your city gates Praise.


‘Wake up, wake up; put on your strength, Zion! Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city! For the uncircumcised and the unclean will no longer enter you.


I will restore the fortunes  of Judah and of Israel and will rebuild them as in former times.


But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his secret places. He will try to hide,  but he will be unable. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbours. He will exist no longer.


The one who is far off will die by plague; the one who is near will fall by the sword; and the one who remains and is spared  will die of famine. In this way I will exhaust my wrath on them.


but I hated Esau.  I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.’


You will be covered with shame and destroyed for ever because of violence done to your brother Jacob.





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