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The Holy Bible in Modern English. Revised Edition.
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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF LAM 4:1 LAMENT 5.
An Elegy on Zion.
STANZA 1.
How the bright gold is tarnished!
The beautiful sculptures flung down!
The fair stones at the top of the streets!
RF LAM 4:2 STANZA 2.
Sons of Zion, the precious, the equal to gold,
Are esteemed but as pitchers, the work of a potter!—
RF LAM 4:3 Wild beasts draw the breast,—they give suck to their young;—
But our mothers are hard, like the birds of the Desert
RF LAM 4:4 So their infant's tongue sticks to its palate for thirst
The children ask bread, but they cannot obtain it;—
RF LAM 4:5 These who fed upon dainties, are starved in the streets;—
Those who were wrapped in purple, now lie upon dunghills,—
RF LAM 4:6 For the woe of my People is greater than Sodom's,
That perished at once, with no torture upon her!
RF LAM 4:7 STANZA 3.
Bright as snow were her Nazarites,—whiter than milk!
Red as coral their faces, as polished as sapphires;—
RF LAM 4:8 Now their form is black darkness,—not known in the streets,—
Their skin cleaves to their bones, it is dry as a stick!
RF LAM 4:9 The slain by the sword, excel those slain by hunger;—
Who waste, stabbed by-want of the fruits of the field
RF LAM 4:10 The hands of kind mothers are boiling their children,
They are their only food in the wreck of my Race!
RF LAM 4:11 The LORD works His fury, pours out His fierce anger,—
Lights a fire in Zion that burns her foundations!
RF LAM 4:12 STANZA 4.
The Kings of earth thought not, nor all the world's people,
That her fierce foes could enter Jerusalem's Gates;
RF LAM 4:13 For the sins of her Preachers, the crimes of her Priesthood,
Who shed in her centre the blood of the Righteous,
RF LAM 4:14 Who with their eyes torn out, reel blood-splashed in her streets,
That no one is able to touch to their clothing.
RF LAM 4:15 All exclaim, "Go! Unclean! Go!—Go!—Do not touch us!"—
When flying they wander, they say in the heathen,—
"They shall not stay here!"
RF LAM 4:16 STANZA 5.
The LORD turns from their part, He will no more regard them.
Accepts not their Priests, and respects not their elders.
RF LAM 4:17 Our eyes failed with watching for those who could help us,
And we trusted a Nation who never could save!
RF LAM 4:18 They step on our footmarks when walking our pathways!
Our end comes!—the time fills!—Our harvest is with us!
RF LAM 4:19 Our hunters are swifter than sky-flying Eagles;—
On the mountains they pounce, in the Desert they wait!
RF LAM 4:20 Took from the LORD'S Chosen the breath and the life,—
In whose shade, we had said, we can rest from the heathen!
RF LAM 4:21 STANZA 6.
I am glad, O Bath-Edom, you traitor of Autzland,
Next to you the cup goes;—you will drink and will stagger!
RF LAM 4:22 Your woe ends, Bath-Zion,—no more to be captured;—
Your grief comes, Edom's Daughter;—your sins are exposed!




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AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



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