4:8Their 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.
4:9They 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.
4:10The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
4:11The 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.
4:12The 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.
4:13For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
4:14They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
4:15They 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.
4:16The 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.
4:17As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
4:18They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.