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Lamentations 5 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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A Prayer for Mercy

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:1 -

Remember, LORD, what has come upon us;

Look, and see our disgrace!

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:2 -

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,

Our houses to foreigners.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:3 -

We have become orphans, without a father;

Our mothers are like widows.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:4 -

[fn]We have to pay for our drinking water,

Our wood comes to us at a price.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:5 -

[fn]Our pursuers are at our necks;

We are worn out, we are given no rest.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:6 -

We have [fn]submitted to Egypt and Assyria [fn]to get enough bread.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:7 -

Our fathers sinned, and are gone;

It is we who have been burdened with the punishment for their wrongdoings.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:8 -

Slaves rule over us;

There is no one to rescue us from their hand.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:9 -

We get our bread [fn]at the risk of our lives

Because of the sword in the wilderness.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:10 -

Our skin has become as hot as an oven,

Because of the ravages of hunger.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:11 -

They violated the women in Zion,

The virgins in the cities of Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:12 -

Leaders were hung by their hands;

[fn]Elders were not respected.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:13 -

Young men [fn]worked at the grinding mill,

And youths staggered under loads of wood.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:14 -

Elders are absent from the gate,

Young men from their music.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:15 -

The joy of our hearts has ended;

Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:16 -

The crown has fallen from our head;

Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:17 -

Because of this our heart is faint,

Because of these things our eyes are dim;

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:18 -

Because of Mount Zion which lies desolate,

Jackals prowl in it.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:19 -

You, LORD, [fn]rule forever;

Your throne is from generation to generation.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:20 -

Why will You forget us forever?

Why do You abandon us for [fn]so long?

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:21 -

Restore us to You, LORD, so that we may be restored;

Renew our days as of old,

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:22 -

Unless You have utterly rejected us

And are exceedingly angry with us.

NASB20 Footnotes
Lit We drink our water with silver
Lit We have been pursued upon
Lit given Egypt a hand
Lit to be satisfied with
Lit with our soul
Lit The faces of elders
Lit carried the
Lit sit
Lit length of days
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