Lamentations 5

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