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Lamentations 4:8–11

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Their 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.
They 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.
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The 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.
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From verse 8

  1. Lamentations 5:10Rank 1 from verse 8
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    10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

  2. Job 30:30Rank 2 from verse 8
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    30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

  3. Psalms 102:3–5Rank 3 from verse 8
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    3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

    4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

    5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.

  4. Job 19:20Rank 4 from verse 8
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    20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

  5. Psalms 119:83Rank 5 from verse 8
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    83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

  6. Isaiah 52:14Rank 6 from verse 8
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    14As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

  7. Job 2:12Rank 7 from verse 8
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    12And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

  8. Job 30:17–19Rank 8 from verse 8
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    17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

    18By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

    19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

  9. Job 33:21Rank 9 from verse 8
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    21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

  10. Joel 2:6Rank 10 from verse 8
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    6Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.

  11. Lamentations 4:1–2Rank 11 from verse 8
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    1HOW is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

    2The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

  12. Nahum 2:10Rank 12 from verse 8
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    10She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

  13. Psalms 102:11Rank 13 from verse 8
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    11My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

  14. Psalms 32:4Rank 14 from verse 8
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    4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

  15. Psalms 38:3Rank 15 from verse 8
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    3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

  16. Ruth 1:19–20Rank 16 from verse 8
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    19¶ So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Beth-lehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?

    20And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

From verse 9

  1. Ezekiel 24:23Rank 1 from verse 9
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    23And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.

  2. Jeremiah 16:4Rank 2 from verse 9
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    4They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

  3. Leviticus 26:39Rank 3 from verse 9
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    39And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

  4. Ezekiel 33:10Rank 4 from verse 9
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    10Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?

From verse 10

  1. 2 Kings 6:26–29Rank 1 from verse 10
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    26And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.

    27And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?

    28And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.

    29So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.

  2. Isaiah 49:15Rank 2 from verse 10
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    15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

  3. Lamentations 2:20Rank 3 from verse 10
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    20¶ Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  4. Jeremiah 19:9Rank 4 from verse 10
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    9And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

  5. Ezekiel 5:10Rank 5 from verse 10
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    10Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.

  6. Lamentations 3:48Rank 6 from verse 10
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    48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  7. Lamentations 4:3Rank 7 from verse 10
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    3Even the sea monsters 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.

  8. Leviticus 26:29Rank 8 from verse 10
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    29And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

  9. Deuteronomy 28:53–57Rank 9 from verse 10
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    53And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:

    54So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

    55So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

    56The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

    57And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

From verse 11

  1. Jeremiah 7:20Rank 1 from verse 11
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    20Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

  2. Ezekiel 22:31Rank 2 from verse 11
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    31Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God.

  3. Jeremiah 17:27Rank 3 from verse 11
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    27But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

  4. Lamentations 2:17Rank 4 from verse 11
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    17The Lord hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

  5. Daniel 9:12Rank 5 from verse 11
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    12And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.

  6. Deuteronomy 32:21–25Rank 6 from verse 11
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    21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

    22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

    23I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

    24They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

    25The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

  7. Ezekiel 20:47–48Rank 7 from verse 11
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    47And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

    48And all flesh shall see that I the Lord have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.

  8. Jeremiah 13:14Rank 8 from verse 11
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    14And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the Lord: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

  9. Jeremiah 14:15–16Rank 9 from verse 11
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    15Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

    16And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

  10. Jeremiah 15:1–4Rank 10 from verse 11
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    1THEN said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

    2And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the Lord; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.

    3And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the Lord: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

    4And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

  11. Jeremiah 19:3–11Rank 11 from verse 11
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    3And say, Hear ye the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.

    4Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

    5They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

    6Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.

    7And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

    8And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

    9And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

    10Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

    11And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.

  12. Jeremiah 21:14Rank 12 from verse 11
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    14But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the Lord: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.

  13. Jeremiah 23:19–20Rank 13 from verse 11
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    19Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

    20The anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.

  14. Jeremiah 24:8–10Rank 14 from verse 11
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    8¶ And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the Lord, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:

    9And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

    10And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

  15. Jeremiah 6:11–12Rank 15 from verse 11
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    11Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

    12And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord.

  16. Jeremiah 9:9–11Rank 16 from verse 11
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    9¶ Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

    10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

    11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

  17. Lamentations 2:8Rank 17 from verse 11
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    8The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

  18. Lamentations 4:22Rank 18 from verse 11
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    22¶ 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.

  19. Luke 21:22Rank 19 from verse 11
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    22For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

  20. Zechariah 1:6Rank 20 from verse 11
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    6But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

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DEFINED WORDS

Lamentations 4:8

COMBINED MEANING

coal

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A piece of wood, or other combustible substance, ignited, burning, or charred.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

skin

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Sense 1: The natural outer covering of a person or animal; the hide or exterior covering. Sense 2: To strip off the skin or hide.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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withered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of wither, meaning to dry up, fade, lose freshness or strength, or waste away.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

like

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Sense 1: Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely. Sense 2: A like person or thing; an equal or counterpart. Sense 3: To please, choose, or regard with favour.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

stick

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Sense 1: As a noun, a cut branch, rod, or slender piece of wood. Sense 2: As a verb, to adhere, remain fast, project, or be fixed in or upon something.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Lamentations 4:9

COMBINED MEANING

better

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Sense 1: More excellent, more fitting, or to a greater degree. Sense 2: To improve or make better.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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hunger

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Sense 1: The bodily craving or need for food. Sense 2: As a verb, to feel that need or earnestly desire.

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for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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COMBINED MEANING

pine

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1. A pine tree. 2. To waste, languish, or decline in strength or life.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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stricken

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Sense 1: Struck, smitten, pierced, afflicted, or visited with a blow or calamity. Sense 2: In the expression stricken in age or years, advanced and far gone in age.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

want

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Absence, lack, need, poverty, or insufficiency of what is required; to lack, be without, need, or come short of it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

fruits

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Sense 1: The produce of a plant; offspring. Sense 2: The result and effect of conduct.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Lamentations 4:10

COMBINED MEANING

hands

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Sense 1: The end parts of the arms used for holding and working. Sense 2: Figures of power, possession, agency, or aid.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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pitiful

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Compassionate or full of pity.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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children

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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

meat

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Sense 1: Food, nourishment, sustenance, or provision. Sense 2: Figuratively, that which nourishes or sustains.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

destruction

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The act, result, or state of destroying: ruin, overthrow, death, wasting, or that which brings ruin.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

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DEFINED WORDS

Lamentations 4:11

COMBINED MEANING

accomplished

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of accomplish, meaning to finish, complete, fulfill, or bring to an end.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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anger

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Sense 1: Strong displeasure or indignation. Sense 2: As a verb, to provoke to such displeasure.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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kindled

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Sense 1: Set on fire, ignited, caused to burn, or made hot. Sense 2: Figuratively, aroused, stirred, or inflamed, especially of anger or wrath.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

fire

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Burning flame and heat that gives light, consumes, purifies, or destroys.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

devoured

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of devour, meaning to eat greedily; to consume, destroy, or waste rapidly and completely.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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4:7Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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