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bes@Lamentations:5:1 @ Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.

bes@Lamentations:5:2 @ Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:

bes@Lamentations:5:3 @ we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.

bes@Lamentations:5:4 @ We have drunk our water for money; our wood is (note:)Lit. has come upon our neck in exchange(:note) sold to us for a burden on our neck:

bes@Lamentations:5:5 @ we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.

bes@Lamentations:5:6 @ Egypt gave the hand to us, Assur to their (note:)See Hebrews.(:note) own satisfaction.

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

bes@Lamentations:5:8 @ Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom us out of their hand.

bes@Lamentations:5:9 @ We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

bes@Lamentations:5:10 @ Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.

bes@Lamentations:5:11 @ They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.

bes@Lamentations:5:12 @ Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured.

bes@Lamentations:5:13 @ The chosen men lifted up the voice in weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.

bes@Lamentations:5:14 @ And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their (note:)Or, psalms, or songs(:note) music.

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

bes@Lamentations:5:16 @ The crown has fallen from our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.

bes@Lamentations:5:17 @ For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.

bes@Lamentations:5:18 @ Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.

bes@Lamentations:5:19 @ But thou, O Lord, shalt dwell for ever; thy throne shall endure to generation and generation.

bes@Lamentations:5:20 @ Wherefore wilt thou (note:)See Hebrews.(:note) utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?

bes@Lamentations:5:21 @ Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.

bes@Lamentations:5:22 @ For thou hast indeed rejected us; thou hast been very wroth against us.

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