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They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments (4:14) 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] (4:15) 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 (4:16) As 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] (4:17) They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come (4:18) Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness (4:19) The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen (4:20) Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked (4:21) The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins
(4:22)
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