Previous Chapter Full Page Full Page Next Chapter

Lamentations 5 :: King James Version (KJV)

Lam 5:1

Lam 5:1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

Lam 5:2

Lam 5:2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Lam 5:3

Lam 5:3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Lam 5:4

Lam 5:4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

Lam 5:5

Lam 5:5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

Lam 5:6

Lam 5:6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Lam 5:7

Lam 5:7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

Lam 5:8

Lam 5:8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

Lam 5:9

Lam 5:9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

Lam 5:10

Lam 5:10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

Lam 5:11

Lam 5:11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

Lam 5:12

Lam 5:12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

Lam 5:13

Lam 5:13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

Lam 5:14

Lam 5:14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

Lam 5:15

Lam 5:15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

Lam 5:16

Lam 5:16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

Lam 5:17

Lam 5:17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

Lam 5:18

Lam 5:18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

Lam 5:19

Lam 5:19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

Lam 5:20

Lam 5:20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

Lam 5:21

Lam 5:21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

Lam 5:22

Lam 5:22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
See the KJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
Translation Copyright Logo

The Authorized Version or King James Version (KJV), 1611, 1769.
Outside of the United Kingdom, the KJV is in the public domain. Within the United Kingdom, the rights to the KJV are vested in the Crown.

For more information on this translation, see the KJV Preface.

Pericope

Pericope taken from the NASB95 and has been graciously provided by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved.

New American Standard Bible
Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995
by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.
All rights reserved.

Lamentations Chapter 5 — Additional Translations:

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 American 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

Did You Know BLB Is User Supported?

Your partnership makes all we do possible. Would you prayerfully consider a gift of support today?

Remind Me
Dismiss