Lamentations Chapter 5
Lamentations is the 25th book in the Holy Bible.
This page contains Lamentations 5:1 to Lamentations 5:9.
Browse to all the verses of Lamentations by clicking the page number below the chapter list.
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Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; Look, and see our reproach!
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
Lamentations 5:3
We have become orphans without a father, Our mothers are like widows.
Lamentations 5:4
We have to pay for our drinking water, Our wood comes to us at a price.
Lamentations 5:5
Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, there is no rest for us.
Lamentations 5:6
We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned, and are no more; It is we who have borne their iniquities.
Lamentations 5:8
Slaves rule over us; There is no one to deliver us from their hand.
Lamentations 5:9
We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword in the wilderness.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
Lamentations 5:11
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12
Princes were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected.
Lamentations 5:13
Young men worked at the grinding mill, And youths stumbled under loads of wood.
Lamentations 5:14
Elders are gone from the gate, Young men from their music.
Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our hearts has ceased; Our dancing has been turned into mourning.
Lamentations 5:16
The crown has fallen from our head; Woe to us, for we have sinned!
Lamentations 5:17
Because of this our heart is faint, Because of these things our eyes are dim;
Lamentations 5:18
Because of Mount Zion which lies desolate, Foxes prowl in it.
Lamentations 5:19
You, O LORD, rule forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.
Lamentations 5:20
Why do You forget us forever? Why do You forsake us so long?
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