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Lamentations 5 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:1 - Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:2 - Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:3 - We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:4 - We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:5 - Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:6 - We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:7 - Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:8 - Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:9 - We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:10 - Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:11 - They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:12 - Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:13 - The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:14 - The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:15 - The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:16 - The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:17 - Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:18 - Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:19 - You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:20 - Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:21 - Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:22 - But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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