Lamentations 5

1 Remember, O LORD, what is come on us: consider, and behold our reproach.AKJV — Lamentations 5:1

2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.AKJV — Lamentations 5:2

3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.AKJV — Lamentations 5:3

4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us.AKJV — Lamentations 5:4

5 Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.AKJV — Lamentations 5:5

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

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

8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.AKJV — Lamentations 5:8

9 We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.AKJV — Lamentations 5:9

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

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

12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.AKJV — Lamentations 5:12

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

14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.AKJV — Lamentations 5:14

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

16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!AKJV — Lamentations 5:16

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

18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk on it.AKJV — Lamentations 5:18

19 You, O LORD, remain for ever; your throne from generation to generation.AKJV — Lamentations 5:19

20 Why do you forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?AKJV — Lamentations 5:20

21 Turn you us to you, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.AKJV — Lamentations 5:21

22 But you have utterly rejected us; you are very wroth against us.AKJV — Lamentations 5:22