Lamentations Chapter 5
World English Bible Scriptures
Lamentations 5:1
Remember, the LORD, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
Lamentations 5:4
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.
Lamentations 5:5
Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
Lamentations 5:6
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.
Lamentations 5:8
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
Lamentations 5:9
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
Lamentations 5:11
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12
Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
Lamentations 5:13
The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.
Lamentations 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
Lamentations 5:16
The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
Lamentations 5:18
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.
Lamentations 5:19
You, the LORD, remain forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.
Lamentations 5:20
Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?
Lamentations 5:21
Turn us to yourself, the LORD, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old.
Lamentations 5:22
But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.
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