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Lamentations

Lamentations 5 📜 📕 ↷

1 REMEMBER o Lord what is fallen to us: behold, and regard our reproach.📜💬📚

2 Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.📜💬📚

3 We are made pupils without father: our mothers are as it were widows.📜💬📚

4 Our water we have drunk for money: our wood we have bought for a price.📜💬📚

5 We were led by our necks, no rest was given to the weary.📜💬📚

6 We have given our hand to AEgypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be filled with bread.📜💬📚

7 Our fathers have sinned, & they are not: and we have borne their iniquities.📜💬📚

8 Servants have ruled over us: there was none that would redeem us out of their hand.📜💬📚

9 In peril of our lives did we fetch us bread, at the face of the sword in the desert.📜💬📚

10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the tempests of famine.📜💬📚

11 They humbled the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.📜💬📚

12 The Princes were hanged up by the hand: they did not reverence the faces of the ancients.📜💬📚

13 Young men they abused unchastely: and the children fell in wood.📜💬📚

14 The ancients decayed out of the gates: the youngmen out of the choir of the singers.📜💬📚

15 The joy of our heart hath failed, our choir is turned into mourning.📜💬📚

16 The crown of our head is fallen: woe to us, because we have sinned.📜💬📚

17 Therefore is our heart made sorrowful, therefore are our eyes darkened.📜💬📚

18 For mount Sion, because it is perished, foxes have walked on it.📜💬📚

19 But thou o Lord shalt remain for ever, thy throne in generation and to generation.📜💬📚

20 Why wilt thou for ever be forgetful of us? Wilt thou forsake us in length of days?📜💬📚

21 Convert us o Lord to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.📜💬📚

22 But rejecting thou hast rejected us, thou art angry against us exceedingly.📜💬📚