1 Remember, O what is LORD, come upon us: behold, and see our reproach. ERV — Lamentations 5:1
2 Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens. ERV — Lamentations 5:2
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. ERV — Lamentations 5:3
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. ERV — Lamentations 5:4
5 Our pursuers are upon our necks: we are weary, and have no rest. ERV — Lamentations 5:5
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. ERV — Lamentations 5:6
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. ERV — Lamentations 5:7
8 Servants rule over us: there is none to deliver us out of their hand. ERV — Lamentations 5:8
9 We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. ERV — Lamentations 5:9
10 Our skin is black like an oven because of the burning heat of famine. ERV — Lamentations 5:10
11 They ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities of Judah. ERV — Lamentations 5:11
12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. ERV — Lamentations 5:12
13 The young men bare the mill, and the children stumbled under the wood. ERV — Lamentations 5:13
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. ERV — Lamentations 5:14
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. ERV — Lamentations 5:15
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us! for we have sinned. ERV — Lamentations 5:16
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim; ERV — Lamentations 5:17
18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk upon it. ERV — Lamentations 5:18
19 Thou, O LORD, abidest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation. ERV — Lamentations 5:19
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? ERV — Lamentations 5:20
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. ERV — Lamentations 5:21
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art very wroth against us. ERV — Lamentations 5:22