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Lam_05_01 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. ~

Lam_05_02 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. ~

Lam_05_03 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. ~

Lam_05_04 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. ~

Lam_05_05 Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. ~

Lam_05_06 We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. ~

Lam_05_07 Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities. ~

Lam_05_08 Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand. ~

Lam_05_09 We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. ~

Lam_05_10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. ~

Lam_05_11 They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah. ~

Lam_05_12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. ~

Lam_05_13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. ~

Lam_05_14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. ~

Lam_05_15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. ~

Lam_05_16 The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! ~

Lam_05_17 For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim. ~

Lam_05_18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. ~

Lam_05_19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. ~

Lam_05_20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time? ~

Lam_05_21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. ~

Lam_05_22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. ~