Revised Version 1885

Lamentations 4:15-21 Revised Version 1885 (RV1885)

15. Depart ye, they cried unto them, Unclean! depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn here.

16. 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.

17. Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help; in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

18. They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

19. Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

20. 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 nations.

21. Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: the cup shall pass through unto thee also; thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.