nkjv@Lamentations:5:1@ Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; Look, and behold our reproach! nkjv@Lamentations:5:2@ Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, And our houses to foreigners. nkjv@Lamentations:5:3@ We have become orphans and waifs, Our mothers are like widows. nkjv@Lamentations:5:4@ We pay for the water we drink, And our wood comes at a price. nkjv@Lamentations:5:5@ They pursue at our heels; We labor and have no rest. nkjv@Lamentations:5:6@ We have given our hand to the Egyptians And the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. nkjv@Lamentations:5:7@ Our fathers sinned and are no more, But we bear their iniquities. nkjv@Lamentations:5:8@ Servants rule over us; There is none to deliver us from their hand. nkjv@Lamentations:5:9@ We get our bread at the risk of our lives, Because of the sword in the wilderness. nkjv@Lamentations:5:10@ Our skin is hot as an oven, Because of the fever of famine. nkjv@Lamentations:5:11@ They ravished the women in Zion, The maidens in the cities of Judah. nkjv@Lamentations:5:12@ Princes were hung up by their hands, And elders were not respected. nkjv@Lamentations:5:13@ Young men ground at the millstones; Boys staggered under loads of wood. nkjv@Lamentations:5:14@ The elders have ceased gathering at the gate, And the young men from their music. nkjv@Lamentations:5:15@ The joy of our heart has ceased; Our dance has turned into mourning. nkjv@Lamentations:5:16@ The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! nkjv@Lamentations:5:17@ Because of this our heart is faint; Because of these things our eyes grow dim; nkjv@Lamentations:5:18@ Because of Mount Zion which is desolate, With foxes walking about on it. nkjv@Lamentations:5:19@ You, O LORD, remain forever; Your throne from generation to generation. nkjv@Lamentations:5:20@ Why do You forget us forever, And forsake us for so long a time? nkjv@Lamentations:5:21@ Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we will be restored; Renew our days as of old, nkjv@Lamentations:5:22@ Unless You have utterly rejected us, And are very angry with us! Close Tab