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| The Book of Lamentations 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Basic English Online Bible (BEN) | ||||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:1 | Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:2 | Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:3 | We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:4 | We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:5 | Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:6 | We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:7 | Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:8 | Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:9 | We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:10 | Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:11 | They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:12 | Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:13 | The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:14 | The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:15 | The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:16 | The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:17 | Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark; | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:18 | Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:19 | You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:20 | Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long? | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:21 | Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:22 | But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us. | |||||||||||||||
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