dby@Lamentations:5:1 @ Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.

dby@Lamentations:5:2 @ Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

dby@Lamentations:5:3 @ We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

dby@Lamentations:5:4 @ Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.

dby@Lamentations:5:5 @ Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.

dby@Lamentations:5:6 @ We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

dby@Lamentations:5:7 @ Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.

dby@Lamentations:5:8 @ Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.

dby@Lamentations:5:9 @ We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

dby@Lamentations:5:10 @ Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.

dby@Lamentations:5:11 @ They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.

dby@Lamentations:5:12 @ Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.

dby@Lamentations:5:13 @ The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.

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

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

dby@Lamentations:5:16 @ The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!

dby@Lamentations:5:17 @ For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,

dby@Lamentations:5:18 @ Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.

dby@Lamentations:5:19 @ Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.

dby@Lamentations:5:20 @ Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?

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

dby@Lamentations:5:22 @ Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?

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