wbs - 5

wbs@Lamentations:5:1 @ Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

wbs@Lamentations:5:2 @ Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

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

wbs@Lamentations:5:4 @ We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.

wbs@Lamentations:5:5 @ Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.

wbs@Lamentations:5:6 @ We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

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

wbs@Lamentations:5:8 @ Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

wbs@Lamentations:5:9 @ We procured our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

wbs@Lamentations:5:10 @ Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

wbs@Lamentations:5:11 @ They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

wbs@Lamentations:5:12 @ Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.

wbs@Lamentations:5:13 @ They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

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

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

wbs@Lamentations:5:16 @ The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!

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

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

wbs@Lamentations:5:19 @ Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

wbs@Lamentations:5:20 @ Why dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

wbs@Lamentations:5:21 @ Turn thou us to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

wbs@Lamentations:5:22 @ But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

Lamentations 5