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Lamentations 5 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

Lam 5:1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Lam 5:2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lam 5:3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Lam 5:4We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
Lam 5:5Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
Lam 5:6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lam 5:7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Lam 5:8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Lam 5:9We procured our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
Lam 5:10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Lam 5:11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Lam 5:12Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
Lam 5:13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Lam 5:14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Lam 5:15The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Lam 5:16The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!
Lam 5:17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Lam 5:18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Lam 5:19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
Lam 5:20Why dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Lam 5:21Turn thou us to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Lam 5:22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
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