Thematic Bible

Lamentations 5:1

Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
Look, and see our reproach!

Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
Our houses to aliens.
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 5:3

We have become orphans without a father,
Our mothers are like widows.

Lamentations 5:4

We have to pay for our drinking water,
Our wood comes to us at a price.

Lamentations 5:5

Our pursuers are at our necks;
We are worn out, there is no rest for us.

Lamentations 5:6

We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

Lamentations 5:7

Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
It is we who have borne their iniquities.

Lamentations 5:8

Slaves rule over us;
There is no one to deliver us from their hand.
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 5:9

We get our bread at the risk of our lives
Because of the sword in the wilderness.
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin has become as hot as an oven,
Because of the burning heat of famine.

Lamentations 5:11

They ravished the women in Zion,
The virgins in the cities of Judah.

Lamentations 5:12

Princes were hung by their hands;
Elders were not respected.

Lamentations 5:13

Young men worked at the grinding mill,
And youths stumbled under loads of wood.

Lamentations 5:14

Elders are gone from the gate,
Young men from their music.

Lamentations 5:15

The joy of our hearts has ceased;
Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

Lamentations 5:16

The crown has fallen from our head;
Woe to us, for we have sinned!
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 5:17

Because of this our heart is faint,
Because of these things our eyes are dim;
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 5:18

Because of Mount Zion which lies desolate,
Foxes prowl in it.

Lamentations 5:19

You, O Lord, rule forever;
Your throne is from generation to generation.

Lamentations 5:20

Why do You forget us forever?
Why do You forsake us so long?
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 5:21

Restore us to You, O Lord, that we may be restored;
Renew our days as of old,

Lamentations 5:22

Unless You have utterly rejected us
And are exceedingly angry with us.
No Themes for this verse.