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For [a]the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than [b]the sin of Sodom,
That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands [c]were laid upon her.
Her [d]nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk;
They were more ruddy in body than [e]rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire.
Their visage is [f]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.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:6 Or, the punishment of the iniquity
  2. Lamentations 4:6 Or, the punishment of the sin
  3. Lamentations 4:6 Or, fell. See 2 Sam. 3:29.
  4. Lamentations 4:7 Or, Nazirites
  5. Lamentations 4:7 Or, corals
  6. Lamentations 4:8 Hebrew darker than blackness.