Lamentations 5

Reading Lamentations chapter 5 in the Young's Literal Translation, public-domain text from 1898.

Verses 1–10

1 Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.

2 Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.

3 Orphans we have been--without a father, our mothers are as widows.

4 Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.

5 For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured--there hath been no rest for us.

6 To Egypt we have given a hand, To Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

7 Our fathers have sinned--they are not, We their iniquities have borne.

8 Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

9 With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.

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