Lamentations - Chapter 5 | American Standard Version

  • 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, {cf15i 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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