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Lamentations 2

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and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

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He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

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which devours all around.

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In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire.

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He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

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In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.

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as in the day of a solemn assembly.

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They languish together.

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Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.

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The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

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because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

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when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

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Who can heal you?

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but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.

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the joy of the whole earth’?”

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We have seen it.”

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He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

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Don’t let the your eyes rest.

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who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

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Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

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You have slaughtered, and not pitied.

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My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.