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Lamentations 5 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

A Prayer for Mercy

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Lam 5:1Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us;
Look, and see our reproach!

Lam 5:2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
Our houses to aliens.

Lam 5:3We have become orphans without a father,
Our mothers are like widows.

Lam 5:4 [fn]We have to pay for our drinking water,
Our wood comes to us at a price.

Lam 5:5 [fn]Our pursuers are at our necks;
We are worn out, there is no rest for us.

Lam 5:6We have [fn]submitted to Egypt and Assyria [fn]to get enough bread.

Lam 5:7Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
It is we who have borne their iniquities.

Lam 5:8Slaves rule over us;
There is no one to deliver us from their hand.

Lam 5:9We get our bread [fn]at the risk of our lives
[fn]Because of the sword in the wilderness.

Lam 5:10Our skin has become as hot as an oven,
Because of [fn]the burning heat of famine.

Lam 5:11They ravished the women in Zion,
The virgins in the cities of Judah.

Lam 5:12Princes were hung by their hands;
[fn]Elders were not respected.

Lam 5:13Young men [fn]worked at the grinding mill,
And youths stumbled under loads of wood.

Lam 5:14Elders [fn]are gone from the gate,
Young men from their music.

Lam 5:15The joy of our hearts has ceased;
Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

Lam 5:16The crown has fallen from our head;
Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Lam 5:17Because of this our heart is faint,
Because of these things our eyes are dim;

Lam 5:18Because of Mount Zion which lies desolate,
Foxes prowl in it.

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Lam 5:19You, O LORD, [fn]rule forever;
Your throne is from generation to generation.

Lam 5:20Why do You forget us forever?
Why do You forsake us [fn]so long?

Lam 5:21Restore us to You, O LORD, that we may be restored;
Renew our days as of old,

Lam 5:22Unless You have utterly rejected us
And are exceedingly angry with us.

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NASB95 Footnotes

Literally: We drink our water for silver

Literally: We have been pursued upon

Literally: given the hand to

Literally: to be satisfied with

Literally: with our soul

Or, In the face of

Or, the ravages of hunger

Literally: The faces of elders

Literally: carry

Literally: have ceased

Literally: sit

Literally: to length of days

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