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Lamentations 5
5:1

Remember,2142 O Yahweh,3068 what is come upon us: consider,5027 and behold7200 our reproach.2781

5:2

Our inheritance5159 is turned2015 to strangers,2114 our houses1004 to aliens.5237

5:3

We are orphans3490 and fatherless,369 our mothers517 are as widows.490

5:4

We have drunken8354 our water4325 for money;3701 our wood6086 is sold935 unto us.

5:5

Our necks6677 are under persecution:7291 we labour,3021 and have no rest.5117

5:6

We have given5414 the hand3027 to the Egyptians,4714 and to the Assyrians,804 to be satisfied7646 with bread.3899

5:7

Our fathers1 have sinned,2398 and are not;369 and we have borne5445 their iniquities.5771

5:8

Servants5650 have ruled4910 over us: there is none that doth deliver6561 us out of their hand.3027

5:9

We gat935 our bread3899 with the peril of our lives5315 because6440 of the sword2719 of the wilderness.4057

5:10

Our skin5785 was black3648 like an oven8574 because6440 of the terrible2152 famine.7458

5:11

They ravished6031 the women802 in Zion,6726 and the maids1330 in the cities5892 of Judah.3063

5:12

Princes8269 are hanged up8518 by their hand:3027 the faces6440 of elders2205 were not honoured.1921

5:13

They took5375 the young men970 to grind,2911 and the children5288 fell3782 under the wood.6086

5:14

The elders2205 have ceased7673 from the gate,8179 the young men970 from their musick.5058

5:15

The joy4885 of our heart3820 is ceased;7673 our dance4234 is turned2015 into mourning.60

5:16

The crown5850 is fallen5307 from our head:7218 woe188 unto us, that we have sinned!2398

5:17

For this our heart3820 is faint;1739 for these things our eyes5869 are dim.2821

5:18

Because of the mountain2022 of Zion,6726 which is desolate,8074 the foxes7776 walk1980 upon it.

5:19

Thou, O Yahweh,3068 remainest3427 for ever;5769 thy throne3678 from generation1755 to generation.1755

5:20

Wherefore dost thou forget7911 us for ever,5331 and forsake5800 us so long753 time?3117

5:21

Turn7725 thou us unto thee, O Yahweh,3068 and we shall be turned;7725 renew2318 our days3117 as of old.6924

5:22

But thou hast utterly3988 rejected3988 us; thou art very3966 wroth7107 against us.