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Passage Lookup: Lamentations 5
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22 verses
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Lamentations 5:1
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Remember, O LORD , what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace.
Lamentations 5:2
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Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, our homes to foreigners.
Lamentations 5:3
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We have become orphans and fatherless, our mothers like widows.
Lamentations 5:4
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We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price.
Lamentations 5:5
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Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest.
Lamentations 5:6
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We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
Lamentations 5:7
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Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.
Lamentations 5:8
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Slaves rule over us, and there is none to free us from their hands.
Lamentations 5:9
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We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.
Lamentations 5:10
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Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.
Lamentations 5:11
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Women have been ravished in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12
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Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.
Lamentations 5:13
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Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
Lamentations 5:14
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The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
Lamentations 5:15
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Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
Lamentations 5:16
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The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
Lamentations 5:17
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Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim
Lamentations 5:18
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for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it.
Lamentations 5:19
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You, O LORD , reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.
Lamentations 5:20
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Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us so long?
Lamentations 5:21
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Restore us to yourself, O LORD , that we may return; renew our days as of old
Lamentations 5:22
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22 unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
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