Hey everyone, this is Mary Demuth and this is Pray Every Day, where I have the joy and the privilege of praying you through the Bible verse by verse.

Hey, shout out to all of you who are doing the 90-day Bible reading challenge.

I'm so proud of you.

This means that you're about 33 days in, 32 days in, and those of you've started at the beginning of the year, congratulations. Now, if you

want to just start that now, you can go to meridemuth.com slash Bible, and you can start at that point.

It is pretty amazing. I had a woman in my church do the challenge, and it really just changed her

life. So I'm so excited for anyone that does that challenge. You can also

pick up the book, the 90-day Bible Reading Challenge, to bring you through. But you can also just

sign up for free at meridemuth.com slash Bible. All right, today I'm reading from Lamentations

Chapter 4, the whole chapter in the World English Bible, and this is what it says.

How the gold has become dim, the most pure gold has changed.

The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

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

potter. Even jackals offer their breasts. They nurse their young ones, but the daughter of my people

has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. The tongue of the nursing child clings to the

roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children

ask for bread and no one breaks it for them. Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets.

Those who were brought up in purple embraced dung hills. For the iniquity of the daughter of my people

is greater than the sin of Sodom, which was

overthrown as in a moment no hands were laid on her. Her nobles were purer than snow. They were

wider than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was like sapphire.

Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets.

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