There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.
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What is best in life? To crush your enemies. To see them driven before you. And to hear the lamentations of their women...
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The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him.N.B. From this quote is derived the proverb, Good things come to those who wait.
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Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. (Lamentations 3:8)
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The Cave of Jeremiah is in this part. In its lamentable recesses he composed his lamentable Lamentations.
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Lamentations 3:4:
He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.
(NIV)
My flesh and my skin has He worn out and made old; He has shattered my bones.
(AMP)
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
(KJV)
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Lamentations 3:22:
Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.
(NIV)
It is because of the Lord's mercy and loving-kindness that we are not consumed, because His [tender] compassions fail not. [Mal. 3:6.](AMP)
It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
(KJV)
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