Thematic Bible
Lamentations 5:1 (show verse)
O Lord, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.
Lamentations 5:2 (show verse)
Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.
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Lamentations 5:3 (show verse)
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.
Lamentations 5:4 (show verse)
We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.
Lamentations 5:5 (show verse)
We are pursued -- they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.
Lamentations 5:6 (show verse)
We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.
Lamentations 5:7 (show verse)
Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.
Lamentations 5:8 (show verse)
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.
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Lamentations 5:9 (show verse)
At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside.
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Lamentations 5:10 (show verse)
Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.
Lamentations 5:11 (show verse)
They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12 (show verse)
Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.
Lamentations 5:13 (show verse)
The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.
Lamentations 5:14 (show verse)
The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.
Lamentations 5:15 (show verse)
Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning.
Lamentations 5:16 (show verse)
The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
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Lamentations 5:17 (show verse)
Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears.
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Lamentations 5:18 (show verse)
For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate.
Lamentations 5:19 (show verse)
But you, O Lord, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.
Lamentations 5:20 (show verse)
Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
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Lamentations 5:21 (show verse)
Bring us back to yourself, O Lord, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before,
Lamentations 5:22 (show verse)
unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
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