ASV Lamentations 5 Chapter
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5:1
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
5:2
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.
5:3
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
5:4
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.
5:5
Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
5:6
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
5:7
Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
5:8
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
5:9
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
5:10
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
5:11
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
5:12
Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
5:13
The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.
5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
5:15
The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
5:16
The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.
5:17
For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
5:18
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.
5:19
Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.
5:20
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time?
5:21
Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.
5:22
But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.