Lamentations

Chapter 5

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

Daily Bible Reading - Thu. 10/31/2024

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