Lamentations 5 (NET)

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Lamentations 5:1¹O Lord, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:2²Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:3³We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:4⁴We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:5⁵We are pursued—they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:6⁶We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:7⁷Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:8⁸Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:9⁹At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the wilderness.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:10¹⁰Our skin is as hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:11¹¹They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:12¹²Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:13¹³The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:14¹⁴The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:15¹⁵Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:16¹⁶The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:17¹⁷Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:18¹⁸For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:19¹⁹But you, O Lord, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:20²⁰Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:21²¹Bring us back to yourself, O Lord, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 5:22²²unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

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