Thematic Bible
Lamentations 5:1 (show verse)
{The Prayer of Jeremiah} Call to remembrance, O LORD, what we have suffered; consider and see our confusion.
Lamentations 5:2 (show verse)
Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, and our houses to the aliens.
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Lamentations 5:3 (show verse)
We are become careful and fatherless, and our mothers are as the widows.
Lamentations 5:4 (show verse)
We are fain to drink our own water for money, and our own wood must we buy with money.
Lamentations 5:5 (show verse)
Our necks are under persecution, we are weary, and have no rest.
Lamentations 5:6 (show verse)
Afore time we yielded ourselves to the Egyptians, and now to the Assyrians, only that we might have bread enough.
Lamentations 5:7 (show verse)
Our fathers, which now are gone, have sinned; and we must bear their wickedness.
Lamentations 5:8 (show verse)
Servants have the rule of us, and no man delivereth us out of their hands.
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Lamentations 5:9 (show verse)
We must get our living with the peril of our lives because of the drought of the wilderness.
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Lamentations 5:10 (show verse)
Our skin is as it had been burnt in an oven, for very sore hunger.
Lamentations 5:11 (show verse)
The wives are ravished in Zion, and the maidens in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12 (show verse)
The princes are hanged up with the hand of the enemies; they have not spared the old sage men;
Lamentations 5:13 (show verse)
they have taken young men's lives from them, and the boys are hanged up upon trees.
Lamentations 5:14 (show verse)
The elders sit no more under the gates, and the young men use no more the playing of Music.
Lamentations 5:15 (show verse)
The joy of our heart is gone, our merry query is turned into mourning.
Lamentations 5:16 (show verse)
The garland of our head is fallen: alas, that ever we sinned so sore!
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Lamentations 5:17 (show verse)
Therefore our heart is full of heaviness, and our eyes dim:
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Lamentations 5:18 (show verse)
because of the hill of Zion that is destroyed: Insomuch that the foxes run upon it.
Lamentations 5:19 (show verse)
But thou, O LORD, that remainest for evermore, and thy seat, world without end:
Lamentations 5:20 (show verse)
Wherefore wilt thou still forget us, and forsake us so long?
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Lamentations 5:21 (show verse)
O LORD, turn thou us unto thee: and so shall we be turned. Renew our days as in old time,
Lamentations 5:22 (show verse)
for thou hast now banished us long enough, and hast been sore displeased at us.
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