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Lamentations 5 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:1 - Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; behold, and see our disgrace!
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:2 - Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:3 - We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:4 - We must pay for the water we drink, the wood we get must be bought.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:5 - With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:6 - We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:7 - Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:8 - Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:9 - We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:10 - Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:11 - Women are ravished in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:12 - Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:13 - Young men are compelled to grind at the mill; and boys stagger under loads of wood.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:14 - The old men have quit the city gate, the young men their music.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:15 - The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to 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 - For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:18 - for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:19 - But thou, O LORD, dost reign for ever; thy throne endures to all generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:20 - Why dost thou forget us for ever, why dost thou so long forsake us?
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:21 - Restore us to thyself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old!
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:22 - Or hast thou utterly rejected us? Art thou exceedingly angry with us?
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

Language: English

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