Bible, King James Version
Lamentations
Lam.5
[1] Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and
behold our reproach.
[2] Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to
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 necks are under persecution: we labour, 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 have sinned, and are not; and we have
borne their iniquities.
[8] Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth
deliver us out of their hand.
[9] We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because
of the sword of the wilderness.
[10] Our skin was black like an oven because of the
terrible famine.
[11] They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the
cities of Judah.
[12] Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of
elders were not honoured.
[13] They took the young men to grind, and the children
fell under the wood.
[14] The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men
from their musick.
[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, that
we have sinned!
[17] For this our heart is faint; for these things our
eyes are dim.
[18] Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate,
the foxes walk upon it.
[19] Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from
generation to generation.
[20] Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake
us so long time?
[21] Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, 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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