Lamentations 4:12
King James Version
Translation: KJV
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10The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.Select Lamentations 4:10
11The 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.Select Lamentations 4:11
12The 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.Select Lamentations 4:12
13For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,Select Lamentations 4:13
14They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.Select Lamentations 4:14
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WEB
4:12 The kings of the earth didn’t believe, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
ASV
4:12 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.
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