rsv - 5

rsv@Lamentations:5:1 @ Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; behold, and see our disgrace!

rsv@Lamentations:5:2 @ Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens.

rsv@Lamentations:5:3 @ We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

rsv@Lamentations:5:4 @ We must pay for the water we drink, the wood we get must be bought.

rsv@Lamentations:5:5 @ With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.

rsv@Lamentations:5:6 @ We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.

rsv@Lamentations:5:7 @ Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.

rsv@Lamentations:5:8 @ Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.

rsv@Lamentations:5:9 @ We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

rsv@Lamentations:5:10 @ Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.

rsv@Lamentations:5:11 @ Women are ravished in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.

rsv@Lamentations:5:12 @ Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.

rsv@Lamentations:5:13 @ Young men are compelled to grind at the mill; and boys stagger under loads of wood.

rsv@Lamentations:5:14 @ The old men have quit the city gate, the young men their music.

rsv@Lamentations:5:15 @ The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.

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

rsv@Lamentations:5:17 @ For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,

rsv@Lamentations:5:18 @ for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.

rsv@Lamentations:5:19 @ But thou, O LORD, dost reign for ever; thy throne endures to all generations.

rsv@Lamentations:5:20 @ Why dost thou forget us for ever, why dost thou so long forsake us?

rsv@Lamentations:5:21 @ Restore us to thyself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old!

rsv@Lamentations:5:22 @ Or hast thou utterly rejected us? Art thou exceedingly angry with us?

Lamentations 5