translation_id: asv-eng-asv

book_id: LAM

book: Lamentations

reference: Lamentations 5:1

text: Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.


reference: Lamentations 5:2

text: Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.


reference: Lamentations 5:3

text: We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.


reference: Lamentations 5:4

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


reference: Lamentations 5:5

text: Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.


reference: Lamentations 5:6

text: We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.


reference: Lamentations 5:7

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


reference: Lamentations 5:8

text: Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.


reference: Lamentations 5:9

text: We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.


reference: Lamentations 5:10

text: Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.


reference: Lamentations 5:11

text: They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.


reference: Lamentations 5:12

text: Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.


reference: Lamentations 5:13

text: The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.


reference: Lamentations 5:14

text: The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.


reference: Lamentations 5:15

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


reference: Lamentations 5:16

text: The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.


reference: Lamentations 5:17

text: For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;


reference: Lamentations 5:18

text: For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.


reference: Lamentations 5:19

text: Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.


reference: Lamentations 5:20

text: Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time?


reference: Lamentations 5:21

text: Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.


reference: Lamentations 5:22

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