lesserot@Lamentations:5:1
@ Remember, O Lord, what hath occurred to us, look down, and behold our disgrace.
lesserot@Lamentations:5:2
@ Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
lesserot@Lamentations:5:3
@ Orphans are we become, and without a father, our mothers are like widows.
lesserot@Lamentations:5:4
@ Our water have we drunk for money: our wood cometh to us for a purchase price.
lesserot@Lamentations:5:5
@ Up to our necks are we pursued: we are fatigued, and no rest is allowed us.
lesserot@Lamentations:5:6
@ To Egypt do we stretch out our hand, to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
lesserot@Lamentations:5:7
@ Our fathers have sinned, and are no more; but we have indeed to bear their iniquities.
lesserot@Lamentations:5:8
@ Servants rule over us: no one delivereth us out of their hand.
lesserot@Lamentations:5:9
@ At the peril of our life must we bring home our bread, because of the sword of the wilderness.
lesserot@Lamentations:5:10
@ Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the heat of famine.
lesserot@Lamentations:5:11
@ Women have they ravished in Zion, virgins, in the cities of Judah.
lesserot@Lamentations:5:12
@ Princes were hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
lesserot@Lamentations:5:13
@ Young men they bore to the mill, and boys stumbled under the wood.
lesserot@Lamentations:5:14
@ The elders have ceased from the gate, young men, from their singing.
lesserot@Lamentations:5:15
@ Ceased hath the joy of our heart: our dance is changed into mourning.
lesserot@Lamentations:5:16
@ Fallen is the crown of our head: woe to us, for we have sinned.
lesserot@Lamentations:5:17
@ Because of this is our heart made sick; for these things are our eyes dimmed;
lesserot@Lamentations:5:18
@ Because of the mount of Zion which is wasted, foxes walk about on it.
lesserot@Lamentations:5:19
@ O thou, Lord, wilt truly abide for ever, thy throne existeth throughout all generations.
lesserot@Lamentations:5:20
@ Wherefore wilt thou forget us for ever! wilt thou forsake us for so long a time?
lesserot@Lamentations:5:21
@ Cause us to return, O Lord, unto thee, and we will return: renew our days as of old.
lesserot@Lamentations:5:22
@ For wouldst thou entirely reject us, be wroth with us to the uttermost?
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