Verse-Reference
Reference-Verse
Abbreviate Books
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 Lam 5:1 |
¶ | Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. |
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Lam 5:2 |
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. | |
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Lam 5:3 |
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. | |
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Lam 5:4 |
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. | |
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Lam 5:5 |
Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. | |
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Lam 5:6 |
We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. | |
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Lam 5:7 |
Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities. | |
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Lam 5:8 |
Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand. | |
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Lam 5:9 |
We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. | |
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Lam 5:10 |
¶ | Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. |
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Lam 5:11 |
They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah. | |
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Lam 5:12 |
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. | |
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Lam 5:13 |
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. | |
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Lam 5:14 |
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. | |
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Lam 5:15 |
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. | |
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Lam 5:16 |
The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! | |
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Lam 5:17 |
For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim. | |
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Lam 5:18 |
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. | |
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Lam 5:19 |
¶ | Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. |
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Lam 5:20 |
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time? | |
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Lam 5:21 |
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. | |
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Lam 5:22 |
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. |
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Lamentations - Chapter 5
   
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