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| The Book of Lamentations 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Douay-Rheims Version Online Bible (DRV) | ||||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:1 | Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:2 | Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:3 | We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:4 | We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:5 | We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:6 | We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:7 | Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:8 | Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:9 | We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:10 | Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:11 | They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:12 | The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:13 | They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:14 | The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:15 | The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:16 | The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:17 | Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim, | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:18 | For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:19 | But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:20 | Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time? | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:21 | Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning. | |||||||||||||||
| Lamentations 5:22 | But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us. | |||||||||||||||
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