Wisdom & Truth Verses
Every verse of God's eternal Word carries wisdom and truth. A home for all the rich teachings not captured elsewhere.
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. {blacker...: Heb. darker than blackness}
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.
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}.
They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
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.
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. {is...: Heb. cometh for price}
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. {terrible: or, terrors, or, storms}
They ravished the women in Zion, {and} the maids in the cities of Judah.
The crown is fallen {from} our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! {The...: Heb. The crown of our head is fallen}
For this our heart is faint; for these {things} our eyes are dim.