Category: Lamentations

  • Lamentations 4:15

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Depart ye, they cried unto them, Unclean! depart, depart, touch not! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [here] .

    King James Version (KJV):
    They cried unto them, Depart ye; [it is] unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn [there].

  • Lamentations 4:16

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; He will no more regard them: They respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.

    King James Version (KJV):
    The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.

  • Lamentations 4:11

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger; And he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured the foundations thereof.

    King James Version (KJV):
    The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

  • Lamentations 4:12

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

    King James Version (KJV):
    The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

  • Lamentations 4:9

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.

    King James Version (KJV):
    [They that be] slain with the sword are better than [they that be] slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for [want of] the fruits of the field.

  • Lamentations 4:10

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

    King James Version (KJV):
    The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Lamentations 4:5

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

    King James Version (KJV):
    They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

  • Lamentations 4:6

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid upon her.

    King James Version (KJV):
    For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

  • Lamentations 4:7

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing [was] of sapphire:

  • Lamentations 4:8

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Their visage is blacker than a coal; They are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.