Lamentations 5:1WEB
Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
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Lamentations 5:1WEB
Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Lamentations 5:2WEB
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lamentations 5:3WEB
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
Lamentations 5:4WEB
We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.
Lamentations 5:5WEB
Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
Lamentations 5:6WEB
We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations 5:7WEB
Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.
Lamentations 5:8WEB
Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
Lamentations 5:9WEB
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
Lamentations 5:10WEB
Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
Lamentations 5:11WEB
They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12WEB
Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.
Lamentations 5:13WEB
The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
Lamentations 5:14WEB
The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.
Lamentations 5:15WEB
The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.
Lamentations 5:16WEB
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
Lamentations 5:17WEB
For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:
Lamentations 5:18WEB
for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.
Lamentations 5:19WEB
You, Yahweh, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Lamentations 5:20WEB
Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
Lamentations 5:21WEB
Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Lamentations 5:22WEB
But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.