Lamentations Chapter 5
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- Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
- Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
- We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
- We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
- We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
- We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
- Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
- Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
- We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
- Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
- They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
- The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.
- They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
- The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
- The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
- The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.
- Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,
- For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
- But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
- Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?
- Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.
- But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.