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Lamentations 5 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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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;

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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,
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Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned;
Renew our days as of old.

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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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Lamentations Chapter 5 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras