Lamentations 5

1. 1

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

   Lamentations 5:1KJV

2. 2

   Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

   Lamentations 5:2KJV

3. 3

   We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

   Lamentations 5:3KJV

4. 4

   We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

   Lamentations 5:4KJV

5. 5

   Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

   Lamentations 5:5KJV

6. 6

   We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

   Lamentations 5:6KJV

7. 7

   Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

   Lamentations 5:7KJV

8. 8

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

   Lamentations 5:8KJV

9. 9

   We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

   Lamentations 5:9KJV

10. 10

    Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

    Lamentations 5:10KJV

11. 11

    They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

    Lamentations 5:11KJV

12. 12

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

    Lamentations 5:12KJV

13. 13

    They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

    Lamentations 5:13KJV

14. 14

    The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

    Lamentations 5:14KJV

15. 15

    The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

    Lamentations 5:15KJV

16. 16

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

    Lamentations 5:16KJV

17. 17

    For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

    Lamentations 5:17KJV

18. 18

    Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

    Lamentations 5:18KJV

19. 19

    Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

    Lamentations 5:19KJV

20. 20

    Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

    Lamentations 5:20KJV

21. 21

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

    Lamentations 5:21KJV

22. 22

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

    Lamentations 5:22KJV

The Authorized Version or King James Version (KJV) Copyright © 1611, 1769.