King James Version

Lamentations 5

Lamentations in the King James Version. Each verse number opens that verse. Study, in the row above the verse, opens the Hebrew, the notes, the other translations, and the connections.

Contents

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Open Lamentations 5:1

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
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Open Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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Open Lamentations 5:3

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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Open Lamentations 5:4

We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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Open Lamentations 5:5

Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
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Open Lamentations 5:6

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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Open Lamentations 5:7

Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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Open Lamentations 5:8

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
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Open Lamentations 5:9

We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
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Open Lamentations 5:10

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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Open Lamentations 5:11

They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
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Open Lamentations 5:12

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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Open Lamentations 5:13

They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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Open Lamentations 5:14

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
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Open Lamentations 5:15

The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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Open Lamentations 5:16

The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
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Open Lamentations 5:17

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
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Open Lamentations 5:18

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
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Open Lamentations 5:19

Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
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Open Lamentations 5:20

Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
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Open Lamentations 5:21

Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
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Open Lamentations 5:22

But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

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