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Lamentations 4:22 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion. He will no more carry you away into captivity. He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom. He will uncover your sins. "
Lamentations 4:22
Verse in Context
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20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.
21 Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, who dwells in the land of Uz. The cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken, and will make yourself naked.
22 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion. He will no more carry you away into captivity. He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom. He will uncover your sins.
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Lamentations 4:1
"How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street."
Lamentations 4:2
"The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!"
Lamentations 4:3
"Even the jackals offer their breast. They nurse their young ones. But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness."
Lamentations 4:4
"The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them."
Lamentations 4:5
"Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills."
Lamentations 4:6
"For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment. No hands were laid on her."
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