jps - 5

jps@Lamentations:5:1 @ Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; behold, and see our reproach.

jps@Lamentations:5:2 @ Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens.

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

jps@Lamentations:5:4 @ We have drunk our water for money; our wood cometh to us for price.

jps@Lamentations:5:5 @ To our very necks we are pursued; we labour, and have no rest.

jps@Lamentations:5:6 @ We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to have bread enough;

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

jps@Lamentations:5:8 @ Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hand.

jps@Lamentations:5:9 @ We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

jps@Lamentations:5:10 @ Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

jps@Lamentations:5:17 @ For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim;

jps@Lamentations:5:18 @ For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

jps@Lamentations:5:19 @ Thou, O LORD, art enthroned for ever, Thy throne is from generation to generation.

jps@Lamentations:5:20 @ Wherefore dost Thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

jps@Lamentations:5:21 @ Turn Thou us unto Thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

jps@Lamentations:5:22 @ Thou canst not have utterly rejected us, and be exceeding wroth against us!

Lamentations 5