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Lamentations 5 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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A Prayer for Restoration
Prayer for Restoration
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:1 - Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us;
Look, and behold our reproach!
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:2 - Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens,
And our houses to foreigners.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:3 - We have become orphans and waifs,
Our mothers are like widows.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:4 - We pay for the water we drink,
And our wood comes at a price.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:5 - They pursue at our heels;[fn]
We labor and have no rest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:6 - We have given our hand to the Egyptians
And the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:7 - Our fathers sinned and are no more,
But we bear their iniquities.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:8 - Servants rule over us;
There is none to deliver us from their hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:9 - We get our bread at the risk of our lives,
Because of the sword in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:10 - Our skin is hot as an oven,
Because of the fever of famine.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:11 - They ravished the women in Zion,
The maidens in the cities of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:12 - Princes were hung up by their hands,
And elders were not respected.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:13 - Young men ground at the millstones;
Boys staggered under loads of wood.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:14 - The elders have ceased gathering at the gate,
And the young men from their music.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:15 - The joy of our heart has ceased;
Our dance has turned into mourning.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:16 - The crown has fallen from our head.
Woe to us, for we have sinned!
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:17 - Because of this our heart is faint;
Because of these things our eyes grow dim;
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:18 - Because of Mount Zion which is desolate,
With foxes walking about on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:19 - You, O LORD, remain forever;
Your throne from generation to generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:20 - Why do You forget us forever,
And forsake us for so long a time?
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:21 - Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we will be restored;
Renew our days as of old,
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:22 - Unless You have utterly rejected us,
And are very angry with us!
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