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| Lamentations 5: (ASV) |
| 1) Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach. |
| 2) Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens. |
| 3) We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows. |
| 4) We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us. |
| 5) Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest. |
| 6) We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. |
| 7) Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities. |
| 8) Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. |
| 9) We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. |
| 10) Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. |
| 11) They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. |
| 12) Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored. |
| 13) The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood. |
| 14) The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. |
| 15) The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. |
| 16) The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned. |
| 17) For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim; |
| 18) For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it. |
| 19) Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation. |
| 20) Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time? |
| 21) Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old. |
| 22) But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us. |