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Lamentations 5 :: New English Translation (NET)

Lam 5:1

Lam 5:1O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.

Lam 5:2

Lam 5:2Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.

Lam 5:3

Lam 5:3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

Lam 5:4

Lam 5:4We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.

Lam 5:5

Lam 5:5We are pursued - they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.

Lam 5:6

Lam 5:6We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.

Lam 5:7

Lam 5:7Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.

Lam 5:8

Lam 5:8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.

Lam 5:9

Lam 5:9At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside.

Lam 5:10

Lam 5:10Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.

Lam 5:11

Lam 5:11They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.

Lam 5:12

Lam 5:12Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.

Lam 5:13

Lam 5:13The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.

Lam 5:14

Lam 5:14The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.

Lam 5:15

Lam 5:15Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning.

Lam 5:16

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

Lam 5:17

Lam 5:17Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears.

Lam 5:18

Lam 5:18For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate.

Lam 5:19

Lam 5:19But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.

Lam 5:20

Lam 5:20Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?

Lam 5:21

Lam 5:21Bring us back to yourself, O LORD, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before,

Lam 5:22

Lam 5:22unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
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