The Lamentations of Jeremiah 5

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1 Remember O LORD what is come upon us consider and behold our reproach ⚑

2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers our houses to aliens ⚑

3 We are orphans and fatherless our mothers are as widows ⚑

4 We have drunken our water for money our wood is sold unto us ⚑

5 Our necks are under persecution we labour and have no rest ⚑

6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians to be satisfied with bread ⚑

7 Our fathers have sinned and are not and we have borne their iniquities ⚑

8 Servants have ruled over us there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand ⚑

9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness ⚑

10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine ⚑

11 They ravished the women in Zion and the maids in the cities of Judah ⚑

12 Princes are hanged up by their hand the faces of elders were not honoured ⚑

13 They took the young men to grind and the children fell under the wood ⚑

14 The elders have ceased from the gate the young men from their musick ⚑

15 The joy of our heart is ceased our dance is turned into mourning ⚑

16 The crown is fallen from our head woe unto us that we have sinned ⚑

17 For this our heart is faint for these things our eyes are dim ⚑

18 Because of the mountain of Zion which is desolate the foxes walk upon it ⚑

19 Thou O LORD remainest for ever thy throne from generation to generation ⚑

20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever and forsake us so long time ⚑

21 Turn thou us unto thee O LORD and we shall be turned renew our days as of old ⚑

22 But thou hast utterly rejected us thou art very wroth against us ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain