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