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Lamentations 5	Lamentations 5
Lamentations 5:1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.	Lamentations 5:1 Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.
Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.	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 orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.	Lamentations 5:3 We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
Lamentations 5:4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.	Lamentations 5:4 We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
Lamentations 5:5 Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.	Lamentations 5:5 Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
Lamentations 5:6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.	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 sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.	Lamentations 5:7 Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.
Lamentations 5:8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.	Lamentations 5:8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
Lamentations 5:9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.	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 black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.	Lamentations 5:10 Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
Lamentations 5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.	Lamentations 5:11 They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.	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 bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.	Lamentations 5:13 The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
Lamentations 5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.	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 heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.	Lamentations 5:15 The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
Lamentations 5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.	Lamentations 5:16 The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
Lamentations 5:17 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;	Lamentations 5:17 Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
Lamentations 5:18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.	Lamentations 5:18 Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.
Lamentations 5:19 Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.	Lamentations 5:19 You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.
Lamentations 5:20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time?	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 Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.	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 thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.	Lamentations 5:22 But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.