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Lamentations 5
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Lamentations 5 . 1
1 Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!TOSKLamentations 5:1
Lamentations 5 . 2
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.TOSKLamentations 5:2
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3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.TOSKLamentations 5:3
Lamentations 5 . 4
4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.TOSKLamentations 5:4
Lamentations 5 . 5
5 We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.TOSKLamentations 5:5
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6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.TOSKLamentations 5:6
Lamentations 5 . 7
7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.IPJeremiah 14:20 Leviticus 26:39TOSKLamentations 5:7
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8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.TOSKLamentations 5:8
Lamentations 5 . 9
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.TOSKLamentations 5:9
Lamentations 5 . 10
10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.TOSKLamentations 5:10
Lamentations 5 . 11
11 Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.TOSKLamentations 5:11
Lamentations 5 . 12
12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.TOSKLamentations 5:12
Lamentations 5 . 13
13 Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.TOSKLamentations 5:13
Lamentations 5 . 14
14 The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.TOSKLamentations 5:14
Lamentations 5 . 15
15 Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.TOSKLamentations 5:15
Lamentations 5 . 16
16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!TOSKLamentations 5:16
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17 Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—TOSKLamentations 5:17
Lamentations 5 . 18
18 because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.TOSKLamentations 5:18
Lamentations 5 . 19
19 You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.TOSKLamentations 5:19
Lamentations 5 . 20
20 Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?TOSKLamentations 5:20
Lamentations 5 . 21
21 Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,TOSKLamentations 5:21
Lamentations 5 . 22
22 unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.CLamentations 1:1-5:22TOSKLamentations 5:22