Lamentations 5:1 (ASV)
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.

Lamentations 5:2 (ASV)
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.

Lamentations 5:3 (ASV)
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

Lamentations 5:4 (ASV)
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

Lamentations 5:5 (ASV)
Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

Lamentations 5:6 (ASV)
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Lamentations 5:7 (ASV)
Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

Lamentations 5:8 (ASV)
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

Lamentations 5:9 (ASV)
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

Lamentations 5:10 (ASV)
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

Lamentations 5:11 (ASV)
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

Lamentations 5:12 (ASV)
Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

Lamentations 5:13 (ASV)
The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.

Lamentations 5:14 (ASV)
The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.

Lamentations 5:15 (ASV)
The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

Lamentations 5:16 (ASV)
The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

Lamentations 5:17 (ASV)
For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

Lamentations 5:18 (ASV)
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.

Lamentations 5:19 (ASV)
Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.

Lamentations 5:20 (ASV)
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, `And' forsake us so long time?

Lamentations 5:21 (ASV)
Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.

Lamentations 5:22 (ASV)
But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.
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