Lamentations Chapter 5 Back{5:1} Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.
{5:2} Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to 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 to us.
{5:5} Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
{5:6} We have given the hand to the
Egyptians, To the
Assyrians, to be satisfied with
bread.
{5:7} Our fathers sinned, and are no more; 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; 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 to 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 on it.
{5:19} You, Yahweh, remain forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.
{5:20} Why do you forget us forever, And forsake us so long time?
{5:21} Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old.
{5:22} But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.
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