1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. KJRV — Lamentations 5:1
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. KJRV — Lamentations 5:2
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. KJRV — Lamentations 5:3
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. KJRV — Lamentations 5:4
5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. KJRV — Lamentations 5:5
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. KJRV — Lamentations 5:6
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; (Genesis 37:30; Genesis 42:13; Genesis 44:20) and we have borne their iniquities. KJRV — Lamentations 5:7
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. KJRV — Lamentations 5:8
9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. KJRV — Lamentations 5:9
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. (Genesis 41:57; Genesis 43:1; 1 Kings 18:2; 2 Kings 8:1; Jeremiah 52:6) KJRV — Lamentations 5:10
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. KJRV — Lamentations 5:11
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. KJRV — Lamentations 5:12
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. KJRV — Lamentations 5:13
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. KJRV — Lamentations 5:14
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. KJRV — Lamentations 5:15
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! KJRV — Lamentations 5:16
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. KJRV — Lamentations 5:17
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. KJRV — Lamentations 5:18
19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. KJRV — Lamentations 5:19
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? KJRV — Lamentations 5:20
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. KJRV — Lamentations 5:21
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. KJRV — Lamentations 5:22