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Lamentations 5 – King James Version (KJV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:1 - Remember, H2142 O LORD, H3068 what H4100 is come H1961 upon us: consider, H5027 and behold H7200 our reproach. H2781
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:2 - Our inheritance H5159 is turned H2015 to strangers, H2114 our houses H1004 to aliens. H5237
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:3 - We are H1961 orphans H3490 and fatherless, H369 H1 our mothers H517 are as widows. H490
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:4 - We have drunken H8354 our water H4325 for money; H3701 our wood H6086 is sold H935 unto us.  H4242 H935
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:5 - Our necks H6677 are under persecution: H7291 we labour, H3021 and have H5117 no H3808 rest. H5117
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:6 - We have given H5414 the hand H3027 to the Egyptians, H4714 and to the Assyrians, H804 to be satisfied H7646 with bread. H3899
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:7 - Our fathers H1 have sinned, H2398 and are not; H369 and we H587 have borne H5445 their iniquities. H5771
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:8 - Servants H5650 have ruled H4910 over us: there is none H369 that doth deliver H6561 us out of their hand. H3027
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:9 - We gat H935 our bread H3899 with the peril of our lives H5315 because of H6440 the sword H2719 of the wilderness. H4057
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:10 - Our skin H5785 was black H3648 like an oven H8574 because of H6440 the terrible H2152 famine. H7458
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:11 - They ravished H6031 the women H802 in Zion, H6726 and the maids H1330 in the cities H5892 of Judah. H3063
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:12 - Princes H8269 are hanged up H8518 by their hand: H3027 the faces H6440 of elders H2205 were H1921 not H3808 honoured. H1921
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:13 - They took H5375 the young men H970 to grind, H2911 and the children H5288 fell H3782 under the wood. H6086
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:14 - The elders H2205 have ceased H7673 from the gate, H8179 the young men H970 from their musick. H5058
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:15 - The joy H4885 of our heart H3820 is ceased; H7673 our dance H4234 is turned H2015 into mourning. H60
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:16 - The crown H5850 is fallen H5307 from our head: H7218 woe H188 unto us, that H3588 we have sinned! H2398
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:17 - For H5921 this H2088 our heart H3820 is H1961 faint; H1739 for H5921 these H428 things our eyes H5869 are dim. H2821
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:18 - Because of H5921 the mountain H2022 of Zion, H6726 which is desolate, H8074 the foxes H7776 walk H1980 upon it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:19 - Thou, H859 O LORD, H3068 remainest H3427 for ever; H5769 thy throne H3678 from generation H1755 to generation. H1755
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:20 - Wherefore H4100 dost thou forget us H7911 for ever, H5331 and forsake us H5800 so long H753 time? H3117
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:21 - Turn thou us H7725 unto thee, H413 O LORD, H3068 and we shall be turned; H7725 renew H2318 our days H3117 as of old. H6924
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:22 - But H3588 H518 thou hast H3988 utterly H3988 rejected us; H3988 thou art H7107 very H3966 wroth H7107 against us. H5921
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