LAMENTATIONS 5 : 1 – 22

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VERSE 1

La:5:1: Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

 

 

VERSE 2

La:5:2: Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

 

 

VERSE 3

La:5:3: We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

 

 

VERSE 4

La:5:4: We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

 

 

VERSE 5

La:5:5: Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

 

 

VERSE 6

La:5:6: We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

 

 

VERSE 7

La:5:7: Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

 

 

VERSE 8

La:5:8: Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

 

 

VERSE 9

La:5:9: We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

 

 

VERSE 10

La:5:10: Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

 

 

VERSE 11

La:5:11: They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

 

 

VERSE 12

La:5:12: Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

 

 

VERSE 13

La:5:13: They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

 

 

VERSE 14

La:5:14: The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

 

 

VERSE 15

La:5:15: The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

 

 

VERSE 16

La:5:16: The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

 

 

VERSE 17

La:5:17: For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

 

 

VERSE 18

La:5:18: Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

 

 

VERSE 19

La:5:19: Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

 

 

VERSE 20

La:5:20: Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

 

 

VERSE 21

La:5:21: Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

 

 

VERSE 22

La:5:22: But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

 

*** END OF CHAPTER *** LAMENTATIONS


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