1901 American Standard Version (ASV)
Lamentations 5
A pitiful complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.
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5:1 ¶
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
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5:2
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.
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5:3
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
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5:4
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.
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5:5
Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
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5:6
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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5:7
Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
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5:8
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
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5:9
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
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5:10
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
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5:11
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
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5:12
Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
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5:13
The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.
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5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
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5:15
The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
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5:16
The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.
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5:17
For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
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5:18
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.
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5:19
Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.
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5:20
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time?
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5:21
Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.
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5:22
But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.