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Lamentations 5 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:1 -
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us:
Behold, and see our reproach.
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Our inheritance is turned unto strangers,
Our houses unto aliens.
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We are orphans and fatherless;
Our mothers are as widows.
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We have drunken our water for money;
Our wood is sold unto us.
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Our pursuers are upon our necks:
We are weary, and have no rest.
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians,
And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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Our fathers sinned, and are not;
And we have borne their iniquities.
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Servants rule over us:
There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
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We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
Because of the sword of the wilderness.
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Our skin is black like an oven,
Because of the burning heat of famine.
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They ravished the women in Zion,
The virgins in the cities of Judah.
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Princes were hanged up by their hand:
The faces of elders were not honored.
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The young men bare the mill;
And the children stumbled under the wood.
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The elders have ceased from the gate,
The young men from their music.
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The joy of our heart is ceased;
Our dance is turned into mourning.
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The crown is fallen from our head:
Woe unto us! for we have sinned.
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For this our heart is faint;
For these things our eyes are dim;
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:18 -
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate:
The foxes walk upon it.
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Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever;
Thy throne is from generation to generation.
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Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever,
And forsake us so long time?
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:21 -
Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned;
Renew our days as of old.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:22 -
But thou hast utterly rejected us;
Thou art very wroth against us.
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Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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