Lamentations 5:1 ASV: 


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Lamentations 5:1: 
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.

Lamentations 5:2: 
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.

Lamentations 5:3: 
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

Lamentations 5:4: 
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

Lamentations 5:5: 
Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

Lamentations 5:6: 
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Lamentations 5:7: 
Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

Lamentations 5:8: 
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

Lamentations 5:9: 
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

Lamentations 5:10: 
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

Lamentations 5:11: 
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

Lamentations 5:12: 
Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

Lamentations 5:13: 
The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.

Lamentations 5:14: 
The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.

Lamentations 5:15: 
The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

Lamentations 5:16: 
The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

Lamentations 5:17: 
For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

Lamentations 5:18: 
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.

Lamentations 5:19: 
Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.

Lamentations 5:20: 
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, `And' forsake us so long time?

Lamentations 5:21: 
Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.

Lamentations 5:22: 
But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.