Lamentations — Chapter 5
King James Version · 22 verses
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1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.→2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to 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 necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.→6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.→7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.→8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.→9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.→10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.→11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.→12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.→13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.→14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.→15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.→16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!→17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.→18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.→19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.→20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?→21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.→22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.→