book_id: LAM

book: Lamentations

reference: Lamentations 5:1

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


reference: Lamentations 5:2

text: Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to 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 necks are under persecution: we labour, 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 have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.


reference: Lamentations 5:8

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


reference: Lamentations 5:9

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


reference: Lamentations 5:10

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


reference: Lamentations 5:11

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


reference: Lamentations 5:12

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


reference: Lamentations 5:13

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


reference: Lamentations 5:14

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


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


reference: Lamentations 5:19

text: Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne 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 LORD, 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.