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Ελεος του Κυριου ειναι, οτι δεν συνετελεσθημεν, επειδη δεν εξελιπον οι οικτιρμοι αυτου.
22
Ελεος του Κυριου ειναι, οτι δεν συνετελεσθημεν, επειδη δεν εξελιπον οι οικτιρμοι αυτου.
122. Internal Meaning of Lamentations, Chapter 4
1-3 Holy truths and goods turned into falsities, (3, 4)
4 so that there is a lack of all of them. (3)
5-8 Their spiritual things have become infernal. (3)
9-10 Affections of truth have become cupidities of falsity. (3)
11 They were against the Lord. (3, 4)
12-14 They falsified the truths of the Word. (3)
16-17 The Word was rejected owing to their own intelligence. (3, 11)
18-19 Nothing of the church was left, and therefore came their destruction. (3)
5
Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
6
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 were laid on her.
7
Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire.
8
Their appearance is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin clings to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.