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Lamentations 5:1 (show verse)
Remember, O Jehovah, what was to us: look and see our reproach.
Lamentations 5:2 (show verse)
Our inheritance was turned to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
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Lamentations 5:3 (show verse)
We were orphans, no father; our mothers as widows.
Lamentations 5:4 (show verse)
We drank our water for silver; our wood will come for a price.
Lamentations 5:5 (show verse)
Upon our necks were we pursued: we labored and no rest to us.
Lamentations 5:6 (show verse)
We gave the hand to Egypt, to Assur, to be filled with bread.
Lamentations 5:7 (show verse)
Our fathers sinned, they are not; we bore their iniquities.
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Heredity » General references to
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Parents » Curses entailed
Parents » Sins of, visited on their children
Parent's sins » Visited upon children » General references to
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Transgression » Sin, definition of » Consequences of parents' sins upon children
Lamentations 5:8 (show verse)
Servants ruled over us: none delivering from their hand.
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Lamentations 5:9 (show verse)
With our souls we shall bring our bread from the face of the sword of the desert
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Lamentations 5:10 (show verse)
Our skin was scorched as a furnace from the face of the violent heat of famine.
Lamentations 5:11 (show verse)
They humbled the women in Zion the virgins in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12 (show verse)
Chiefs were hung by their hand: the faces of old men were not honored.
Lamentations 5:13 (show verse)
They took away the chosen ones to grind, and the young men were weak in the wood.
Lamentations 5:14 (show verse)
Old men ceased from the gate, the chosen ones from their stringed instruments.
Lamentations 5:15 (show verse)
The joy of our heart ceased; our dance was turned to mourning.
Lamentations 5:16 (show verse)
The crown of our head fell: wo! now to us, for we sinned.
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Lamentations 5:17 (show verse)
For this our heart was languid; for this our eyes were darkened.
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Lamentations 5:18 (show verse)
For mount Zion was laid waste, the foxes went upon it.
Lamentations 5:19 (show verse)
Thou, O Jehovah, shalt dwell forever; thy throne to generation and generation.
Lamentations 5:20 (show verse)
Wherefore wilt thou forget us forever? wilt thou forsake us to length of days?
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Lamentations 5:21 (show verse)
Turn us back, O Jehovah, to thee, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Lamentations 5:22 (show verse)
But rejecting, thou didst reject us; thou wert angry against us even greatly.
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