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Lamentations 5 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:1 - Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:2 - Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:3 - we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:4 - We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us for a burden on our neck:
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:5 - we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:6 - Egypt gave the hand to us, Assur to their own satisfaction.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:7 - Our fathers sinned, and are not: we have borne their iniquities.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:8 - Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom us out of their hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:9 - We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:10 - Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:11 - They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:12 - Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:13 - The chosen men lifted up the voice in weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:14 - And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:15 - The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:16 - The crown has fallen from our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:17 - For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:18 - Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:19 - But thou, O Lord, shalt dwell for ever; thy throne shall endure to generation and generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:20 - Wherefore wilt thou utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:21 - Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:22 - For thou hast indeed rejected us; thou hast been very wroth against us.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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