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Lamentations 5 - King James 1611 bible

Lamentations 5

¹Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider and beholde our reproch.

²Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliants.

³We are orphanes and fatherlesse, our mothers are as widowes.

⁴We haue drunken our water for money, our wood is sold vnto vs.

⁵Our neckes are vnder persecution: we labour and haue no rest.

⁶We haue giuen the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

⁷Our fathers haue sinned and are not, and wee haue borne their iniquities.

⁸Seruants haue ruled ouer vs: there is none that doeth deliuer vs out of their hand.

⁹We gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.

¹⁰Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine.

¹¹They rauished the women in Zion, and the maides in the cities of Iudah.

¹²Princes are hanged vp by their hand: the faces of Elders were not honoured.

¹³They tooke the young men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.

¹⁴The Elders haue ceased from the gate, the young men from their musicke.

¹⁵The ioy of our heart is ceased, our daunce is turned into mourning.

¹⁶The crowne is fallen from our head: Woe vnto vs, that wee haue sinned.

¹⁷For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dimme.

¹⁸Because of the mountaine of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walke vpon it.

¹⁹Thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne from generation to generation.

²⁰Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?

²¹Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned: renew our dayes as of old.

²²But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art very wroth against vs.