Lamentations 4: 20

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THE
LAMENTATIONS
OF JEREMIAH

CHAPTER 4

20 The breath of our nostrils, the ^aanointed of the Lord, was taken in their ^bpits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

Footnotes

20a

2 Chr. 35: 25.

25 ¶ And Jeremiah ^alamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

Jer. 39: 7.

7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s ^aeyes, and bound ^bhim with chains, to carry him to Babylon.

Ezek. 19: 8 (4, 8)

8 Then the nations set ^aagainst him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was ^btaken in their ^cpit.

D&C 122: 7 (5, 7)

7 And if thou shouldst be cast into the ^apit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the ^bdeep; if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to ^chedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of ^dhell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee ^eexperience, and shall be for thy good.