Lamentations 5
Reading Lamentations chapter 5 in the Webster's Bible, public-domain text from 1833.
Verses 1–10
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 drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
5 Our necks [are] under persecution: we labor, [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 procured 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.
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