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Lamentations 5 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Lam 5:1

Lam 5:1Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.

Lam 5:2

Lam 5:2Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.

Lam 5:3

Lam 5:3Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers are as widows.

Lam 5:4

Lam 5:4Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.

Lam 5:5

Lam 5:5For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.

Lam 5:6

Lam 5:6To Egypt we have given a hand, To Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

Lam 5:7

Lam 5:7Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.

Lam 5:8

Lam 5:8Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

Lam 5:9

Lam 5:9With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

Lam 5:10

Lam 5:10Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.

Lam 5:11

Lam 5:11Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins -- in cities of Judah.

Lam 5:12

Lam 5:12Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.

Lam 5:13

Lam 5:13Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.

Lam 5:14

Lam 5:14The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.

Lam 5:15

Lam 5:15Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.

Lam 5:16

Lam 5:16Fallen hath the crown from our head, Wo is now to us, for we have sinned.

Lam 5:17

Lam 5:17For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.

Lam 5:18

Lam 5:18For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.

Lam 5:19

Lam 5:19Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.

Lam 5:20

Lam 5:20Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!

Lam 5:21

Lam 5:21Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.

Lam 5:22

Lam 5:22For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly?
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The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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