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Lamentations 5

22 verses · King James Version

  1. 1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:1
  2. 2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:2
  3. 3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers as widows.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:3
  4. 4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:4
  5. 5Our necks under persecution: we labour, have no rest.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:5
  6. 6We have given the hand the Egyptians, the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:6
  7. 7Our fathers have sinned, not; and we have borne their iniquities.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:7
  8. 8Servants have ruled over us: none that doth deliver out of their hand.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:8
  9. 9We gat our bread with our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:9
  10. 10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:10
  11. 11They ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:11
  12. 12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:12
  13. 13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:13
  14. 14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:14
  15. 15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:15
  16. 16The crown is fallen our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!Compare translations of Lamentations 5:16
  17. 17For this our heart is faint; for these our eyes are dim.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:17
  18. 18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:18
  19. 19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:19
  20. 20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, forsake us so long time?Compare translations of Lamentations 5:20
  21. 21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:21
  22. 22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.Compare translations of Lamentations 5:22