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Lamentations 5 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Lam 5:1

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

Lam 5:2

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

Lam 5:3

Lam 5:3We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.

Lam 5:4

Lam 5:4We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.

Lam 5:5

Lam 5:5Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.

Lam 5:6

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

Lam 5:7

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

Lam 5:8

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

Lam 5:9

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

Lam 5:10

Lam 5:10Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.

Lam 5:11

Lam 5:11They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.

Lam 5:12

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

Lam 5:13

Lam 5:13The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.

Lam 5:14

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

Lam 5:15

Lam 5:15The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.

Lam 5:16

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

Lam 5:17

Lam 5:17Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;

Lam 5:18

Lam 5:18Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.

Lam 5:19

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

Lam 5:20

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

Lam 5:21

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

Lam 5:22

Lam 5:22But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.
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