Lamentations 5
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1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
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2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
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6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
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9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
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10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
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12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
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15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
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17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
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18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
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19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
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20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
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21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
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22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
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Chapter 5
Cross References
Lamentations 5:1
Psalms 44:13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that...Psalms 89:50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the repr...Lamentations 3:61Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;Nehemiah 4:4Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own hea...Psalms 74:10O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name...
Lamentations 5:2
Zephaniah 1:13Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they...Isaiah 1:7Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers...Psalms 79:1O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they de...Deuteronomy 28:30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build...Isaiah 63:18The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries...
Lamentations 5:3
Jeremiah 18:21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by t...Exodus 22:24And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives s...Jeremiah 15:8Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon...Hosea 14:3Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any...
Lamentations 5:4
Lamentations 5:5
Nehemiah 9:36Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fat...Lamentations 1:14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come...Jeremiah 27:11But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and...Jeremiah 27:8And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the...Deuteronomy 28:48Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee,...
Lamentations 5:6
Hosea 12:1Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth...Hosea 9:3They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and...Jeremiah 2:36Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of...Genesis 24:2And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that...Hosea 7:11¶ Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go t...
Lamentations 5:7
Jeremiah 31:29In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and t...Jeremiah 16:12And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after t...Jeremiah 14:20We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we...Ezekiel 18:2What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, Th...Exodus 20:5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God...
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Zechariah 11:6For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I...Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people...Psalms 7:2Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to d...Proverbs 30:22For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;Job 10:7Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thi...
Lamentations 5:9
Ezekiel 4:16Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in...Ezekiel 12:18Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and w...Jeremiah 40:9And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their m...Jeremiah 41:1Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the...Jeremiah 42:16Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you...
Lamentations 5:10
Lamentations 4:8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their sk...Job 30:30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.Psalms 119:83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.Lamentations 3:4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Lamentations 5:11
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Lamentations 4:16The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respe...Isaiah 47:6¶ I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them i...Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they h...Jeremiah 39:6Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: al...Jeremiah 52:10And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also...
Cross References
Lamentations 5:1
Psalms 44:13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that...Psalms 89:50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the repr...Lamentations 3:61Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;Nehemiah 4:4Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own hea...Psalms 74:10O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name...
Lamentations 5:2
Zephaniah 1:13Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they...Isaiah 1:7Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers...Psalms 79:1O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they de...Deuteronomy 28:30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build...Isaiah 63:18The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries...
Lamentations 5:3
Jeremiah 18:21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by t...Exodus 22:24And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives s...Jeremiah 15:8Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon...Hosea 14:3Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any...
Lamentations 5:4
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Nehemiah 9:36Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fat...Lamentations 1:14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come...Jeremiah 27:11But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and...Jeremiah 27:8And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the...Deuteronomy 28:48Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee,...
Lamentations 5:6
Hosea 12:1Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth...Hosea 9:3They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and...Jeremiah 2:36Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of...Genesis 24:2And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that...Hosea 7:11¶ Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go t...
Lamentations 5:7
Jeremiah 31:29In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and t...Jeremiah 16:12And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after t...Jeremiah 14:20We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we...Ezekiel 18:2What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, Th...Exodus 20:5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God...
Lamentations 5:8
Zechariah 11:6For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I...Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people...Psalms 7:2Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to d...Proverbs 30:22For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;Job 10:7Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thi...
Lamentations 5:9
Ezekiel 4:16Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in...Ezekiel 12:18Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and w...Jeremiah 40:9And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their m...Jeremiah 41:1Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the...Jeremiah 42:16Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you...
Lamentations 5:10
Lamentations 4:8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their sk...Job 30:30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.Psalms 119:83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.Lamentations 3:4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Lamentations 5:11
Lamentations 5:12
Lamentations 4:16The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respe...Isaiah 47:6¶ I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them i...Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they h...Jeremiah 39:6Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: al...Jeremiah 52:10And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also...