Lamentations 5:1 (KJV)
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

Lamentations 5:2 (KJV)
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Lamentations 5:3 (KJV)
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Lamentations 5:4 (KJV)
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

Lamentations 5:5 (KJV)
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

Lamentations 5:6 (KJV)
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Lamentations 5:7 (KJV)
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

Lamentations 5:8 (KJV)
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

Lamentations 5:9 (KJV)
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

Lamentations 5:10 (KJV)
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

Lamentations 5:11 (KJV)
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

Lamentations 5:12 (KJV)
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

Lamentations 5:13 (KJV)
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

Lamentations 5:14 (KJV)
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

Lamentations 5:15 (KJV)
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

Lamentations 5:16 (KJV)
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

Lamentations 5:17 (KJV)
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

Lamentations 5:18 (KJV)
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

Lamentations 5:19 (KJV)
Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

Lamentations 5:20 (KJV)
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

Lamentations 5:21 (KJV)
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

Lamentations 5:22 (KJV)
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
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