Lamentations 5
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1LORD, remember what has happened to us. See how we have been disgraced!1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3We are orphaned and fatherless. Our mothers are widowed.3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4We have to pay for water to drink, and even firewood is expensive.4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are exhausted but are given no rest.5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough food to survive.6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our ancestors sinned, but they have died— and we are suffering the punishment they deserved!7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8Slaves have now become our masters; there is no one left to rescue us.8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9We hunt for food at the risk of our lives, for violence rules the countryside.9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven.10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11Our enemies rape the women in Jerusalem and the young girls in all the towns of Judah.11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs, and our elders are treated with contempt.12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13Young men are led away to work at millstones, and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood.13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14The elders no longer sit in the city gates; the young men no longer dance and sing.14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16The garlands have fallen from our heads. Weep for us because we have sinned.16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17Our hearts are sick and weary, and our eyes grow dim with tears.17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
18For Jerusalem is empty and desolate, a place haunted by jackals.18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19But LORD, you remain the same forever! Your throne continues from generation to generation.19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
20Why do you continue to forget us? Why have you abandoned us for so long?20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
21Restore us, O LORD, and bring us back to you again! Give us back the joys we once had!21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22Or have you utterly rejected us? Are you angry with us still?22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com.
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