chapter_Lamentations_5
Lamentations 5:1: Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach. Lamentations 5:2: Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners. Lamentations 5:3: Orphans we have been &#8212; without a father, our mothers are as widows. Lamentations 5:4: Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come. Lamentations 5:5: For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured &#8212; there hath been no rest for us. Lamentations 5:6: To Egypt we have given a hand, To Asshur, to be satisfied with bread. Lamentations 5:7: Our fathers have sinned &#8212; they are not, We their iniquities have borne. Lamentations 5:8: Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand. Lamentations 5:9: With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness. Lamentations 5:10: Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine. Lamentations 5:11: Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins &#8212; in cities of Judah. Lamentations 5:12: Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured. Lamentations 5:13: Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled. Lamentations 5:14: The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song. Lamentations 5:15: Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing. Lamentations 5:16: Fallen hath the crown from our head, Woe is now to us, for we have sinned. Lamentations 5:17: For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim. Lamentations 5:18: For the mount of Zion &#8212; that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it. Lamentations 5:19: Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation. Lamentations 5:20: Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days! Lamentations 5:21: Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old. Lamentations 5:22: For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us &#8212; exceedingly?
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