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Lamentations 4:17-22 Darby Translation 1890 (DARBY)

17. Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save.

18. They hunted our steps, that we could not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

19. Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens; they chased us hotly upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

20. The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

21. Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: the cup shall pass also unto thee; thou shalt be drunken, and make thyself naked.

22. The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity. He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.

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