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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 2:1 LAMENT 2.
An Appeal to God's Mercy.
STANZA 1.
Why wraps the LORD Zion's daughter in cloud in His anger?
Why throws Israel's beauty from heaven to earth?
Nor His footstool regards in the day of His wrath?
RF LAM 2:2 The LORD swallowed all Jacob's fields without pity;
Broke down in His fury the forts of Bath-Judah;
And flung to earth wounded her kingdom and princes!
RF LAM 2:3 Cut off in fierce anger the strong horn of Israel;
His hand has withdrawn from the face of the foe;
Burnt Jacob, like flame that devours around,
RF LAM 2:4 Bent His how like a foe, fixed His hand as opponent,
And slew all the loved in the halls of Bath-Zion,
And poured out His fury like fire!
RF LAM 2:5 STANZA 2.
The LORD came like a foeman; He swallowed up Israel;
He swallowed her Mansions, destroyed all her Strongholds,
And loaded Bath-Judah with mourning on mourning!—
RF LAM 2:6 Shakes His tent like a garden,—His chosen home ruins!
The LORD banished from Zion the Feast and the Sabbath,
And degraded in anger the King and the priest!
RF LAM 2:7 The LORD loathes His altar, retires from His temple,
And His Palace-walls gives to the power of her foes
Who roar in the House of the LORD like a feast day!
RF LAM 2:8 STANZA 3.
The LORD planned to destruction the walls of Bath-Zion,
Stretched the line, nor will turn back his hand from the wreck;
The rampart and wall weep together, and languish,
RF LAM 2:9 With smashed bars her ruined gates fall to the earth,—
And her Princes and King are amongst lawless heathens,
And her preachers no more from the LORD find a vision.
RF LAM 2:10 And Bath-Zion's rulers are on the earth speechless;—
They throw dust on their heads, and their garments are sacks,
And Jerusalem's maidens to earth bow their heads!
RF LAM 2:11 STANZA 4.
Mine eyes fail with tears, and my feelings are troubled,
And my pride falls to earth, with the wound of my People,
While child and babe faint in streets of the City,
RF LAM 2:12 And entreat of their mothers for corn and for wine;
When they faint, like the slain, on the City's wide streets,
Or their life is poured out on their sad mothers' lap!
RF LAM 2:13 STANZA 5.
How portray, or depict you, Jerusalem's daughter?
How liken, to comfort you, maiden of Zion?
For deep as the sea is your wound,—Who can cure you?—
RF LAM 2:14 Your Preachers present you with fable and falsehood,
And display not your vice, nor can keep you from chains,—
But show to you visions of lying seductions!
RF LAM 2:15 STANZA 6.
At you, they will clap hands, all who pass on the road;
Hiss, shaking their heads, at Jerusalem's daughter;—
"Was this she they called the perfection of beauty?
The delight for all earth?"
RF LAM 2:16 Against you all your enemies open their mouth,
Grind their teeth, hiss, and say,—"We have swallowed her down—
We have seen and have found the day that we had hoped!"
RF LAM 2:17 STANZA 7.
The LORD has effected His purpose completely;
The intent that He threatened in days long ago;—
Thrown down, and not pitied; your foes gloat above you;—
And your tyrants can lift up their horn over you!
RF LAM 2:18 LAMENT 3.
An Appeal to Zion to Repent.
STANZA 1.
Walls of Zion! cry heartily to the ALMIGHTY,
Pour your tears like a river, by day and by night!
Give no rest to yourself and no sleep to your eyeballs!
RF LAM 2:19 Arise! shout by night to the chief of the watchers,—
Pour your heart like a stream, let it flow to the Master,—
Lift to Him your hands for the life of your children,
Who are fainting for want at the head of the streets!
RF LAM 2:20 STANZA 2.
Look, LORD, and reflect upon whom You have done this!
Shall wives eat their offspring? The infants they dandled?
Or the Priest and the Preacher, be slain in GOD'S Temple?
RF LAM 2:21 On the earth of the streets lie the young and the old!—
You have slain the young girls and young men by the sword,
In the day of Your anger You slaughtered unsparing!
RF LAM 2:22 You called like a meeting my terrors around me,
And there was in that day from the LORD'S wrath no flight,
But my foe shamed my girls, and the darlings I dandled.




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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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