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Lamentations 4:7-9
Contemporary English Version
Lamentations 4:7-9
Contemporary English Version
7 The leaders of Jerusalem
were purer than snow
and whiter than milk;
their bodies were healthy
and glowed like jewels.[a]
8 Now they are blacker than tar,
and no one recognizes them;
their skin clings to their bones
and is drier than firewood.
9 Being killed with a sword
is better than slowly
starving to death.
Footnotes
- 4.7 jewels: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 7.
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