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Lamentations 4

The Lamentations of Jeremiah

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Chapter 5

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  Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.  

 

 

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  Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.  

 

 

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3


 

  We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.  

 

 

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4


 

  We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.  

 

 

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5


 

  Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.  

 

 

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6


 

  We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.  

 

 

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7


 

  Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.  

 

 

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8


 

  Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.  

 

 

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9


 

  We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.  

 

 

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10


 

  Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.  

 

 

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11


 

  They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.  

 

 

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12


 

  Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.  

 

 

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13


 

  The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.  

 

 

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14


 

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

 

 

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15


 

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

 

 

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16


 

  The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.  

 

 

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17


 

  For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;  

 

 

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18


 

  For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.  

 

 

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19


 

  You, Yahweh, abide forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.  

 

 

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20


 

  Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?  

 

 

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21


 

  Turn you us to you, Yahweh, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.  

 

 

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22


 

  But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.  

 

 

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Ezekiel 1

 

 

 

 

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