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Lamentations 5:1 (show verse)
Remember, O Yahweh, what hath befallen us, Look around, and see our reproach:
Lamentations 5:2 (show verse)
Our inheritance, turned over to foreigners, our houses, to aliens.
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Lamentations 5:3 (show verse)
Orphans, have we become, and fatherless, our mothers, are widows indeed.
Lamentations 5:4 (show verse)
Our water - for silver, have we drunk, our wood - for a price, cometh in.
Lamentations 5:5 (show verse)
Upon our necks, are our pursuers, We labour, and there is allowed us no rest.
Lamentations 5:6 (show verse)
To Egypt, have we stretched out our hand, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations 5:7 (show verse)
Our fathers, sinned, and are not, and, we, their iniquities, have borne.
Lamentations 5:8 (show verse)
Slaves, have ruled over us, There is none to set free from their hand.
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Lamentations 5:9 (show verse)
At the risk of our life, do we bring in our bread, because of the sword of the desert.
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Lamentations 5:10 (show verse)
Our skin, as with a furnace, is scorched, because of the hot winds of famine.
Lamentations 5:11 (show verse)
Women - in Zion, were ravished, virgins, in the cities of Judah!
Lamentations 5:12 (show verse)
Princes, by their hand, have been hanged, The faces of elders, not honoured.
Lamentations 5:13 (show verse)
Young men, a millstone, have lifted, and, youths, under wood, have staggered.
Lamentations 5:14 (show verse)
Elders, from the gates, have ceased. Young men, from their music.
Lamentations 5:15 (show verse)
Ceased hath the joy of our hearts, Changed to mourning, our dance.
Lamentations 5:16 (show verse)
Fallen is the crown of our head. Surely woe to us, for we have sinned.
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Lamentations 5:17 (show verse)
For this cause, faint is our heart, For these things, dimmed are our eyes:
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Lamentations 5:18 (show verse)
Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate, jackals, have gone prowling therein.
Lamentations 5:19 (show verse)
Thou, O Yahweh, unto times age-abiding, dost remain, Thy throne, from generation to generation:
Lamentations 5:20 (show verse)
Wherefore shouldst thou perpetually forget us? forsake us, to length of days?
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Lamentations 5:21 (show verse)
Bring us back, O Yahweh, unto thyself, and we will come back! Renew our days, as of old;
Lamentations 5:22 (show verse)
For though thou hast not, utterly rejected, us, thou art wroth with us - exceedingly!
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