<< Lamentations 5 >>
King James Bible: Purple Letter Edition | |
1Remember, O
LORD, what is come upon us; consider, and behold our reproach.
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers
are like {as} widows.
4We have
drunk {drunken} our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5Our necks
are under persecution; we labor,
and have no rest.
6We have given the hand
to the Egyptians,
and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers have sinned,
and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants have ruled over us;
there is none that doth deliver
us out of their hand.
9We
got {gat} our bread with
the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11They ravished the women in Zion,
and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12Princes are
hung {hanged} up by their hand
s; the faces of elders were not honored.
13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16The crown is fallen
from our head; woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19Thou, O LORD, remainest forever; Thy throne from generation to generation.
20Why {Wherefore} dost Thou forget us forever, and forsake us so long a time?
21Turn Thou us unto Thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22But Thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very angry with {wroth against} us.
