Lamentations 5
Reading Lamentations chapter 5 in the World English Bible, public-domain text from 2000.
Verses 1–10
1 Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
4 We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.
5 Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
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