King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 4:12
“The 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.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 4
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.
The 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.
For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
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Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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