Lamentations 5

¹Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.SelectedLamentations 5:1CopyShareAsk

²Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.SelectedLamentations 5:2CopyShareAsk

³We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.SelectedLamentations 5:3CopyShareAsk

⁴We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.SelectedLamentations 5:4CopyShareAsk

⁵Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.SelectedLamentations 5:5CopyShareAsk

⁶We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.SelectedLamentations 5:6CopyShareAsk

⁷Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.SelectedLamentations 5:7CopyShareAsk

⁸Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.SelectedLamentations 5:8CopyShareAsk

⁹We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.SelectedLamentations 5:9CopyShareAsk

¹⁰Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.SelectedLamentations 5:10CopyShareAsk

¹¹They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.SelectedLamentations 5:11CopyShareAsk

¹²Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.SelectedLamentations 5:12CopyShareAsk

¹³They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.SelectedLamentations 5:13CopyShareAsk

¹⁴The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.SelectedLamentations 5:14CopyShareAsk

¹⁵The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.SelectedLamentations 5:15CopyShareAsk

¹⁶The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!SelectedLamentations 5:16CopyShareAsk

¹⁷For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.SelectedLamentations 5:17CopyShareAsk

¹⁸Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.SelectedLamentations 5:18CopyShareAsk

¹⁹Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.SelectedLamentations 5:19CopyShareAsk

²⁰Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?SelectedLamentations 5:20CopyShareAsk

²¹Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.SelectedLamentations 5:21CopyShareAsk

²²But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.SelectedLamentations 5:22CopyShareAsk