Lamentations 5

¹Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.

²Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.

³We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

⁴We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

⁵Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

⁶We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

⁷Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

⁸Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

⁹We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

¹⁰Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

¹¹They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

¹²Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

¹³The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.

¹⁴The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.

¹⁵The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

¹⁶The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

¹⁷For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

¹⁸For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.

¹⁹Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.

²⁰Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time?

²¹Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.

²²But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.

Lamentations 5 (ASV)

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Lamentations

Chapter 5

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