Lamentations 5

Verses of Lamentations 5 of the ASV from the book of the bible

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

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Lamentations 5 ASV - English Bible Online

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