New Living Translation (NLT)
Lamentations 3
63 Look at them! Whether they sit or stand, I am the object of their mocking songs.
64 Pay them back, LORD, for all the evil they have done.
65 Give them hard and stubborn hearts, and then let your curse fall on them!
66 Chase them down in your anger, destroying them beneath the LORD’s heavens.
Lamentations 4
1 How the gold has lost its luster! Even the finest gold has become dull. The sacred gemstones lie scattered in the streets!
2 See how the precious children of Jerusalem, worth their weight in fine gold, are now treated like pots of clay made by a common potter.
3 Even the jackals feed their young, but not my people Israel. They ignore their children’s cries, like ostriches in the desert.
4 The parched tongues of their little ones stick to the roofs of their mouths in thirst. The children cry for bread, but no one has any to give them.
5 The people who once ate the richest foods now beg in the streets for anything they can get. Those who once wore the finest clothes now search the garbage dumps for food.
6 The guilt of my people is greater than that of Sodom, where utter disaster struck in a moment and no hand offered help.
7 Our princes once glowed with health— brighter than snow, whiter than milk. Their faces were as ruddy as rubies, their appearance like fine jewels.
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