#### Lamentations 5

Verses : {1} {2} {3} {4} {5} {6} {7} {8} {9} {10} {11} {12} {13} {14} {15} {16} {17} {18} {19} {20} {21} {22}

^ La 5.1: Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
^ La 5.2: Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
^ La 5.3: We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
^ La 5.4: We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
^ La 5.5: Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest.
^ La 5.6: We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
^ La 5.7: Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.
^ La 5.8: Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.
^ La 5.9: We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
^ La 5.10: Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
^ La 5.11: They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
^ La 5.12: Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
^ La 5.13: They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
^ La 5.14: The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
^ La 5.15: The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
^ La 5.16: The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
^ La 5.17: For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.
^ La 5.18: Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
^ La 5.19: Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
^ La 5.20: Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?
^ La 5.21: Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
^ La 5.22: But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.