strkjv@Lamentations:1:1
@ How doth the
city
sit
solitary
, that was
full
of
people
! how is she become as a
widow
! she that was
great
among the
nations
, and
princess
among the
provinces
, how is she become
tributary
!
strkjv@Lamentations:1:2
@ She
weepeth
sore
in the
night
, and her
tears
are on her
cheeks
: among all her
lovers
she hath none to
comfort
her: all her
friends
have dealt
treacherously
with her, they are become her
enemies
.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:3
@
Judah
is gone into
captivity
because of
affliction
, and because of
great
servitude
: she
dwelleth
among the
heathen
, she
findeth
no
rest
: all her
persecutors
overtook
her between the
straits
.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:4
@ The
ways
of
Zion
do
mourn
, because none
come
to the solemn
feasts
: all her
gates
are
desolate
: her
priests
sigh
, her
virgins
are
afflicted
, and she is in
bitterness
.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:5
@ Her
adversaries
are the
chief
, her
enemies
prosper
; for the
LORD
hath
afflicted
her for the
multitude
of her
transgressions
: her
children
are
gone
into
captivity
before
the
enemy
.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:6
@ And from the
daughter
of
Zion
all her
beauty
is
departed
: her
princes
are become like
harts
that
find
no
pasture
, and they are
gone
without
strength
before
the
pursuer
.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:7
@
Jerusalem
remembered
in the
days
of her
affliction
and of her
miseries
all her pleasant
things
that she had in the
days
of
old
, when her
people
fell
into the
hand
of the
enemy
, and none did
help
her: the
adversaries
saw
her, and did
mock
at her
sabbaths
.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:8
@
Jerusalem
hath
grievously
sinned
; therefore she is
removed
: all that
honoured
her
despise
her, because they have
seen
her
nakedness
: yea, she
sigheth
, and
turneth
backward
.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:9
@ Her
filthiness
is in her
skirts
; she
remembereth
not her last
end
; therefore she came
down
wonderfully
: she had no
comforter
. O
LORD
,
behold
my
affliction
: for the
enemy
hath
magnified
himself.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:10
@ The
adversary
hath spread
out
his
hand
upon all her pleasant
things
: for she hath
seen
that the
heathen
entered
into her
sanctuary
, whom thou didst
command
that they should not
enter
into thy
congregation
.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:11
@ All her
people
sigh
, they
seek
bread
; they have
given
their pleasant
things
for
meat
to
relieve
the
soul
:
see
, O
LORD
, and
consider
; for I am become
vile
.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:12
@ Is it nothing to you, all ye that
pass
by
?
behold
, and
see
if there
be
any
sorrow
like unto my
sorrow
, which is
done
unto me, wherewith the
LORD
hath
afflicted
me in the
day
of his
fierce
anger
.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:13
@ From
above
hath he
sent
fire
into my
bones
, and it
prevaileth
against them: he hath
spread
a
net
for my
feet
, he hath
turned
me
back
: he hath
made
me
desolate
and
faint
all the
day
.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:14
@ The
yoke
of my
transgressions
is
bound
by his
hand
: they are
wreathed
, and come
up
upon my
neck
: he hath made my
strength
to
fall
, the
Lord
hath
delivered
me into their
hands
, from whom I am not
able
to rise
up
.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:15
@ The
Lord
hath trodden under
foot
all my
mighty
men in the
midst
of me: he hath
called
an
assembly
against me to
crush
my young
men
: the
Lord
hath
trodden
the
virgin
, the
daughter
of
Judah
, as in a
winepress
.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:16
@ For these things I
weep
; mine
eye
, mine
eye
runneth
down
with
water
, because the
comforter
that should
relieve
my
soul
is
far
from me: my
children
are
desolate
, because the
enemy
prevailed
.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:17
@
Zion
spreadeth
forth
her
hands
, and there is none to
comfort
her: the
LORD
hath
commanded
concerning
Jacob
, that his
adversaries
should be round
about
him:
Jerusalem
is as a menstruous
woman
among them.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:18
@ The
LORD
is
righteous
; for I have
rebelled
against his
commandment
:
hear
, I pray you, all
people
, and
behold
my
sorrow
: my
virgins
and my young
men
are
gone
into
captivity
.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:19
@ I
called
for my
lovers
, but they
deceived
me: my
priests
and mine
elders
gave up the
ghost
in the
city
, while they
sought
their
meat
to
relieve
their
souls
.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:20
@
Behold
, O
LORD
; for I am in
distress
: my
bowels
are
troubled
; mine
heart
is
turned
within
me; for I have
grievously
rebelled
:
abroad
the
sword
bereaveth
, at
home
there is as
death
.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:21
@ They have
heard
that I
sigh
: there is none to
comfort
me: all mine
enemies
have
heard
of my
trouble
; they are
glad
that thou hast
done
it: thou wilt
bring
the
day
that thou hast
called
, and they shall be
like
unto me.
strkjv@Lamentations:1:22
@ Let all their
wickedness
come
before
thee; and
do
unto them, as thou hast
done
unto me for all my
transgressions
: for my
sighs
are
many
, and my
heart
is
faint
.
strkjv@Lamentations:2:1
@ How hath the
Lord
covered
the
daughter
of
Zion
with a
cloud
in his
anger
, and cast
down
from
heaven
unto the
earth
the
beauty
of
Israel
, and
remembered
not his
footstool
in the
day
of his
anger
!
strkjv@Lamentations:2:2
@ The
Lord
hath swallowed
up
all the
habitations
of
Jacob
, and hath not
pitied
: he hath thrown
down
in his
wrath
the strong
holds
of the
daughter
of
Judah
; he hath brought them
down
to the
ground
: he hath
polluted
the
kingdom
and the
princes
thereof.
strkjv@Lamentations:2:3
@ He hath cut
off
in his
fierce
anger
all the
horn
of
Israel
: he hath
drawn
back
his right
hand
from
before
the
enemy
, and he
burned
against
Jacob
like a
flaming
fire
, which
devoureth
round
about
.
strkjv@Lamentations:2:4
@ He hath
bent
his
bow
like an
enemy
: he
stood
with his right
hand
as an
adversary
, and
slew
all that were
pleasant
to the
eye
in the
tabernacle
of the
daughter
of
Zion
: he poured
out
his
fury
like
fire
.
strkjv@Lamentations:2:5
@ The
Lord
was as an
enemy
: he hath swallowed
up
Israel
, he hath swallowed
up
all her
palaces
: he hath
destroyed
his strong
holds
, and hath
increased
in the
daughter
of
Judah
mourning
and
lamentation
.
strkjv@Lamentations:2:6
@ And he hath violently taken
away
his
tabernacle
, as if it were of a
garden
: he hath
destroyed
his places of the
assembly
: the
LORD
hath caused the solemn
feasts
and
sabbaths
to be
forgotten
in
Zion
, and hath
despised
in the
indignation
of his
anger
the
king
and the
priest
.
strkjv@Lamentations:2:7
@ The
Lord
hath cast
off
his
altar
, he hath
abhorred
his
sanctuary
, he hath given
up
into the
hand
of the
enemy
the
walls
of her
palaces
; they have
made
a
noise
in the
house
of the
LORD
, as in the
day
of a solemn
feast
.
strkjv@Lamentations:2:8
@ The
LORD
hath
purposed
to
destroy
the
wall
of the
daughter
of
Zion
: he hath stretched
out
a
line
, he hath not
withdrawn
his
hand
from
destroying
: therefore he made the
rampart
and the
wall
to
lament
; they
languished
together
.
strkjv@Lamentations:2:9
@ Her
gates
are
sunk
into the
ground
; he hath
destroyed
and
broken
her
bars
: her
king
and her
princes
are among the
Gentiles
: the
law
is no more; her
prophets
also
find
no
vision
from the
LORD
.
strkjv@Lamentations:2:10
@ The
elders
of the
daughter
of
Zion
sit
upon the
ground
, and keep
silence
: they have cast
up
dust
upon their
heads
; they have
girded
themselves with
sackcloth
: the
virgins
of
Jerusalem
hang
down
their
heads
to the
ground
.
strkjv@Lamentations:2:11
@ Mine
eyes
do
fail
with
tears
, my
bowels
are
troubled
, my
liver
is
poured
upon the
earth
, for the
destruction
of the
daughter
of my
people
; because the
children
and the
sucklings
swoon
in the
streets
of the
city
.
strkjv@Lamentations:2:12
@ They
say
to their
mothers
, Where is
corn
and
wine
? when they
swooned
as the
wounded
in the
streets
of the
city
, when their
soul
was poured
out
into their
mothers
bosom
.
strkjv@Lamentations:2:13
@ What thing shall I take to
witness
for thee? what
thing
shall I
liken
to thee, O
daughter
of
Jerusalem
? what shall I
equal
to thee, that I may
comfort
thee, O
virgin
daughter
of
Zion
? for thy
breach
is
great
like the
sea
: who can
heal
thee?
strkjv@Lamentations:2:14
@ Thy
prophets
have
seen
vain
and foolish
things
for thee: and they have not
discovered
thine
iniquity
, to turn
away
thy
captivity
sh@
; but have
seen
for thee
false
burdens
and causes of
banishment
.
strkjv@Lamentations:2:15
@ All that
pass
by
clap
their
hands
at
thee
; they
hiss
and
wag
their
head
at the
daughter
of
Jerusalem
, saying, Is this the
city
that men
call
The
perfection
of
beauty
, The
joy
of the whole
earth
?
strkjv@Lamentations:2:16
@ All thine
enemies
have
opened
their
mouth
against thee: they
hiss
and
gnash
the
teeth
: they
say
, We have swallowed her
up
:
certainly
this is the
day
that we looked
for
; we have
found
, we have
seen
it.
strkjv@Lamentations:2:17
@ The
LORD
hath
done
that which he had
devised
; he hath
fulfilled
his
word
that he had
commanded
in the
days
of
old
: he hath thrown
down
, and hath not
pitied
: and he hath caused thine
enemy
to
rejoice
over thee, he hath set
up
the
horn
of thine
adversaries
.
strkjv@Lamentations:2:18
@ Their
heart
cried
unto the
Lord
, O
wall
of the
daughter
of
Zion
, let
tears
run
down
like a
river
day
and
night
:
give
thyself no
rest
; let not the
apple
of thine
eye
cease
.
strkjv@Lamentations:2:19
@
Arise
, cry
out
in the
night
: in the
beginning
of the
watches
pour
out
thine
heart
like
water
before
the
face
of the
Lord
: lift
up
thy
hands
toward him for the
life
of thy young
children
, that
faint
for
hunger
in the
top
of every
street
.
strkjv@Lamentations:2:20
@
Behold
, O
LORD
, and
consider
to whom thou hast
done
this
. Shall the
women
eat
their
fruit
, and
children
of a span
long
? shall the
priest
and the
prophet
be
slain
in the
sanctuary
of the
Lord
?
strkjv@Lamentations:2:21
@ The
young
and the
old
lie
on the
ground
in the
streets
: my
virgins
and my young
men
are
fallen
by the
sword
; thou hast
slain
them in the
day
of thine
anger
; thou hast
killed
, and not
pitied
.
strkjv@Lamentations:2:22
@ Thou hast
called
as in a
solemn
day
my
terrors
round
about
, so that in the
day
of the
LORDS
anger
none
escaped
nor
remained
: those that I have
swaddled
and brought
up
hath mine
enemy
consumed
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:1
@ I am the
man
that hath
seen
affliction
by the
rod
of his
wrath
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:2
@ He hath
led
me, and
brought
me into
darkness
, but not into
light
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:3
@ Surely against me is he
turned
; he
turneth
his
hand
against me all the
day
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:4
@ My
flesh
and my
skin
hath he made
old
; he hath
broken
my
bones
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:5
@ He hath builded
against
me, and
compassed
me with
gall
and
travail
t@.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:6
@ He hath
set
me in dark
places
, as they that be
dead
of
old
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:7
@ He hath
hedged
me about, that I cannot get
out
: he hath made my
chain
heavy
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:8
@ Also when I
cry
and
shout
, he shutteth
out
my
prayer
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:9
@ He hath
inclosed
my
ways
with hewn
stone
, he hath made my
paths
crooked
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:10
@ He was unto me as a
bear
lying in
wait
, and as a
lion
in secret
places
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:11
@ He hath turned
aside
my
ways
, and pulled me in
pieces
: he hath
made
me
desolate
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:12
@ He hath
bent
his
bow
, and
set
me as a
mark
for the
arrow
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:13
@ He hath caused the
arrows
of his
quiver
to
enter
into my
reins
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:14
@ I was a
derision
to all my
people
; and their
song
all the
day
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:15
@ He hath
filled
me with
bitterness
, he hath made me
drunken
with
wormwood
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:16
@ He hath also
broken
my
teeth
with gravel
stones
, he hath
covered
me with
ashes
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:17
@ And thou hast
removed
my
soul
far
off
from
peace
: I
forgat
prosperity
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:18
@ And I
said
, My
strength
and my
hope
is
perished
from the
LORD
:
strkjv@Lamentations:3:19
@
Remembering
mine
affliction
and my
misery
, the
wormwood
and the
gall
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:20
@ My
soul
hath them
still
in
remembrance
, and is
humbled
in me.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:21
@ This I
recall
to my
mind
, therefore have I
hope
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:22
@ It is of the
LORDS
mercies
that we are not
consumed
, because his
compassions
fail
not.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:23
@ They are
new
every
morning
:
great
is thy
faithfulness
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:24
@ The
LORD
is my
portion
,
saith
my
soul
; therefore will I
hope
in him.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:25
@ The
LORD
is
good
unto them that
wait
for him, to the
soul
that
seeketh
him.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:26
@ It is
good
that a man should both
hope
and quietly
wait
for the
salvation
of the
LORD
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:27
@ It is
good
for a
man
that he
bear
the
yoke
in his
youth
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:28
@ He
sitteth
alone
and keepeth
silence
, because he hath
borne
it upon him.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:29
@ He
putteth
his
mouth
in the
dust
; if so be there may
be
hope
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:30
@ He
giveth
8799) his
cheek
to him that
smiteth
him: he is filled
full
with
reproach
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:31
@ For the
Lord
will not cast
off
for
ever
:
strkjv@Lamentations:3:32
@ But though he cause
grief
, yet will he have
compassion
according to the
multitude
of his
mercies
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:33
@ For he doth not
afflict
willingly
nor
grieve
the
children
of
men
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:34
@ To
crush
under his
feet
all the
prisoners
of the
earth
,
strkjv@Lamentations:3:35
@ To turn
aside
the
right
of a
man
before the
face
of the most
High
,
strkjv@Lamentations:3:36
@ To
subvert
a
man
in his
cause
, the
Lord
approveth
not.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:37
@ Who is he that
saith
, and it cometh to pass, when the
Lord
commandeth
it not?
strkjv@Lamentations:3:38
@ Out of the
mouth
of the most
High
proceedeth
not
evil
and
good
?
strkjv@Lamentations:3:39
@ Wherefore doth a
living
man
complain
, a
man
for the punishment of his
sins
?
strkjv@Lamentations:3:40
@ Let us
search
and
try
our
ways
, and turn
again
to the
LORD
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:41
@ Let us lift
up
our
heart
with our
hands
unto
God
in the
heavens
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:42
@
We
have
transgressed
and have
rebelled
: thou hast not
pardoned
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:43
@ Thou hast
covered
with
anger
, and
persecuted
us: thou hast
slain
, thou hast not
pitied
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:44
@ Thou hast
covered
thyself with a
cloud
, that our
prayer
should not pass
through
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:45
@ Thou hast
made
us as the
offscouring
and
refuse
in the
midst
of the
people
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:46
@ All our
enemies
have
opened
their
mouths
against us.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:47
@
Fear
and a
snare
is come upon us,
desolation
and
destruction
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:48
@ Mine
eye
runneth
down
with
rivers
of
water
for the
destruction
of the
daughter
of my
people
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:49
@ Mine
eye
trickleth
down
, and
ceaseth
not, without any
intermission
,
strkjv@Lamentations:3:50
@ Till the
LORD
look
down
, and
behold
from
heaven
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:51
@ Mine
eye
affecteth
mine
heart
because of all the
daughters
of my
city
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:52
@ Mine
enemies
chased
me
sore
, like a
bird
, without
cause
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:53
@ They have cut
off
my
life
in the
dungeon
, and
cast
a
stone
upon me.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:54
@
Waters
flowed
over
mine
head
; then I
said
, I am cut
off
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:55
@ I
called
upon thy
name
, O
LORD
, out of the
low
dungeon
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:56
@ Thou hast
heard
my
voice
:
hide
not thine
ear
at my
breathing
, at my
cry
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:57
@ Thou drewest
near
in the
day
that I
called
upon thee: thou
saidst
,
Fear
not.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:58
@ O
Lord
, thou hast
pleaded
the
causes
of my
soul
; thou hast
redeemed
my
life
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:59
@ O
LORD
, thou hast
seen
my
wrong
:
judge
thou my
cause
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:60
@ Thou hast
seen
all their
vengeance
and all their
imaginations
against me.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:61
@ Thou hast
heard
their
reproach
, O
LORD
, and all their
imaginations
against me;
strkjv@Lamentations:3:62
@ The
lips
of those that rose
up
against me, and their
device
against me all the
day
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:63
@
Behold
their sitting
down
, and their rising
up
; I am their
musick
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:64
@
Render
unto them a
recompence
, O
LORD
, according to the
work
of their
hands
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:65
@
Give
them
sorrow
of
heart
, thy
curse
unto them.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:66
@
Persecute
and
destroy
them in
anger
from under the
heavens
of the
LORD
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:1
@ How is the
gold
become
dim
! how is the
most
fine
gold
changed
! the
stones
of the
sanctuary
are poured
out
in the
top
of every
street
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:2
@ The
precious
sons
of
Zion
,
comparable
to fine
gold
, how are they
esteemed
as
earthen
pitchers
, the
work
of the
hands
of the
potter
!
strkjv@Lamentations:4:3
@ Even the sea
monsters
draw
out
the
breast
, they give
suck
to their young
ones
: the
daughter
of my
people
is become
cruel
, like the
ostriches
in the
wilderness
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:4
@ The
tongue
of the sucking
child
cleaveth
to the roof of his
mouth
for
thirst
: the young
children
ask
bread
, and no man
breaketh
it unto them.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:5
@ They that did
feed
delicately
are
desolate
in the
streets
: they that were brought
up
in
scarlet
embrace
dunghills
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:6
@ For the punishment of the
iniquity
of the
daughter
of my
people
is
greater
than the
punishment
of the sin of
Sodom
, that was
overthrown
as in a
moment
, and no
hands
stayed
on her.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:7
@ Her
Nazarites
were
purer
than
snow
, they were
whiter
than
milk
, they were more
ruddy
in
body
than
rubies
, their
polishing
was of
sapphire
:
strkjv@Lamentations:4:8
@ Their
visage
is
blacker
than a
coal
; they are not
known
in the
streets
: their
skin
cleaveth
to their
bones
; it is
withered
, it is become like a
stick
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:9
@ They that be
slain
with the
sword
are
better
than they that be
slain
with
hunger
: for
these
pine
away
,
stricken
through for want of the
fruits
of the
field
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:10
@ The
hands
of the
pitiful
women
have
sodden
their own
children
: they were their
meat
in the
destruction
of the
daughter
of my
people
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:11
@ The
LORD
hath
accomplished
his
fury
; he hath poured
out
his
fierce
anger
, and hath
kindled
a
fire
in
Zion
, and it hath
devoured
the
foundations
thereof.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:12
@ The
kings
of the
earth
, and all the
inhabitants
of the
world
, would not have
believed
that the
adversary
and the
enemy
should have
entered
into the
gates
of
Jerusalem
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:13
@ For the
sins
of her
prophets
, and the
iniquities
of her
priests
, that have
shed
the
blood
of the
just
in the
midst
of her,
strkjv@Lamentations:4:14
@ They have
wandered
as
blind
men in the
streets
, they have
polluted
themselves with
blood
, so that men
could
not
touch
their
garments
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:15
@ They
cried
unto them,
Depart
ye; it is
unclean
;
depart
,
depart
,
touch
not: when they fled
away
and
wandered
, they
said
among the
heathen
, They shall no
more
sojourn
there.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:16
@ The
anger
of the
LORD
hath
divided
them; he will no
more
regard
them: they
respected
not the
persons
of the
priests
, they
favoured
not the
elders
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:17
@ As for us, our
eyes
as yet
failed
for our
vain
help
: in our
watching
we have
watched
for a
nation
that could not
save
us.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:18
@ They
hunt
our
steps
, that we cannot
go
in our
streets
: our
end
is
near
, our
days
are
fulfilled
; for our
end
is
come
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:19
@ Our
persecutors
are
swifter
than the
eagles
of the
heaven
: they
pursued
us upon the
mountains
, they laid
wait
for us in the
wilderness
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:20
@ The
breath
of our
nostrils
, the
anointed
of the
LORD
, was
taken
in their
pits
, of whom we
said
, Under his
shadow
we shall
live
among the
heathen
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:21
@
Rejoice
and be
glad
, O
daughter
of
Edom
, that
dwellest
in the
land
of
Uz
; the
cup
also shall
pass
through unto thee: thou shalt be
drunken
, and shalt make thyself
naked
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:22
@ The punishment of thine
iniquity
is
accomplished
, O
daughter
of
Zion
; he will no
more
carry thee away into
captivity
: he will
visit
thine
iniquity
, O
daughter
of
Edom
; he will
discover
thy
sins
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:1
@
Remember
, O
LORD
, what is come upon us:
consider
, and
behold
our
reproach
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:2
@ Our
inheritance
is
turned
to
strangers
, our
houses
to
aliens
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:3
@ We are
orphans
and
fatherless
H1, our
mothers
are as
widows
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:4
@ We have
drunken
our
water
for
money
; our
wood
is
sold
unto us.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:5
@ Our
necks
are under
persecution
: we
labour
, and have no
rest
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:6
@ We have
given
the
hand
to the
Egyptians
, and to the
Assyrians
, to be
satisfied
with
bread
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:7
@ Our
fathers
have
sinned
, and are
not
; and we have
borne
their
iniquities
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:8
@
Servants
have
ruled
over us: there is none that doth
deliver
us out of their
hand
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:9
@ We
gat
our
bread
with the peril of our
lives
because
of the
sword
of the
wilderness
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:10
@ Our
skin
was
black
like an
oven
because
of the
terrible
famine
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:11
@ They
ravished
the
women
in
Zion
, and the
maids
in the
cities
of
Judah
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:12
@
Princes
are hanged
up
by their
hand
: the
faces
of
elders
were not
honoured
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:13
@ They
took
the young
men
to
grind
, and the
children
fell
under the
wood
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:14
@ The
elders
have
ceased
from the
gate
, the young
men
from their
musick
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:15
@ The
joy
of our
heart
is
ceased
; our
dance
is
turned
into
mourning
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:16
@ The
crown
is
fallen
from our
head
:
woe
unto us, that we have
sinned
!
strkjv@Lamentations:5:17
@ For this our
heart
is
faint
; for these things our
eyes
are
dim
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:18
@ Because of the
mountain
of
Zion
, which is
desolate
, the
foxes
walk
upon it.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:19
@ Thou, O
LORD
,
remainest
for
ever
; thy
throne
from
generation
to
generation
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:20
@ Wherefore dost thou
forget
us for
ever
, and
forsake
us so
long
time
?
strkjv@Lamentations:5:21
@
Turn
thou us unto thee, O
LORD
, and we shall be
turned
;
renew
our
days
as of
old
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:22
@ But thou hast
utterly
rejected
us; thou art
very
wroth
against us.
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