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3.60 :Thou hast seen all their vengeance
 * And all their devices against me.
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 * Thou hast heard their taunt, O ,
 * And all their devices against me;
 * The lips of those that rose up against me,
 * And their muttering against me all the day.
 * Behold Thou their sitting down, and their rising up;
 * I am their song.
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 * Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O ,
 * According to the work of their hands.
 * Thou wilt give them hardness of heart,
 * Thy curse unto them.
 * Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them
 * From under the heavens of the.


 * How is the gold become dim!
 * How is the most fine gold changed!
 * The hallowed stones are poured out
 * At the head of every street.
 * The precious sons of Zion,
 * Comparable to fine gold,
 * How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers,
 * The work of the hands of the potter!
 * Even the jackals draw out the breast,
 * They give suck to their young ones;
 * The daughter of my people is become cruel,
 * Like the ostriches in the wilderness.
 * The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth
 * To the roof of his mouth for thirst;
 * The young children ask bread,
 * And none breaketh it unto them.
 * They that did feed on dainties
 * Are desolate in the streets;
 * They that were brought up in scarlet
 * Embrace dunghills.
 * 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 fell upon her.
 * Her princes were purer than snow,
 * They were whiter than milk,
 * They were more ruddy in body than rubies,
 * Their polishing was as of sapphire;
 * Their visage is blacker than coal;
 * They are not known in the streets;
 * Their skin is shrivelled upon their bones;
 * It is withered, it is become like a stick.
 * 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.
 * The hands of women full of compassion
 * Have sodden their own children;
 * They were their food
 * In the destruction of the daughter of my people.


 * The hath accomplished His fury,
 * He hath poured out His fierce anger;
 * And He hath kindled a fire in Zion,
 * Which hath devoured the foundations thereof.
 * The kings of the earth believed not,
 * Neither all the inhabitants of the world,