Lamentations 5
aligned by seat — same row, same verse, whatever each bible numbers it
| v | JPS1917 |
|---|---|
| 1 | Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; Behold, and see our reproach. |
| 2 | Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens. |
| 3 | We are become orphans and fatherless, Our mothers are as widows. |
| 4 | We have drunk our water for money; Our wood cometh to us for price. |
| 5 | To our very necks we are pursued; We labour, and have no rest. |
| 6 | We have given the hand to Egypt, And to Assyria, to have bread enough; |
| 7 | Our fathers have sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities. |
| 8 | Servants rule over us; There is none to deliver us out of their hand. |
| 9 | We get our bread with the peril of our lives Because of the sword of the wilderness. |
| 10 | Our skin is hot like an oven Because of the burning heat of famine. |
| 11 | They have ravished the women in Zion, The maidens in the cities of Judah. |
| 12 | Princes are hanged up by their hand; The faces of elders are not honoured. |
| 13 | The young men have borne the mill, And the children have stumbled under the wood. |
| 14 | The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. |
| 15 | The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. |
| 16 | The crown is fallen from our head; Woe unto us! for we have sinned. |
| 17 | For this our heart is faint, For these things our eyes are dim; |
| 18 | For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, The foxes walk upon it. |
| 19 | Thou, O LORD, art enthroned for ever, Thy throne is from generation to generation. |
| 20 | Wherefore dost Thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time? |
| 21 | Turn Thou us unto Thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old. |
| 22 | Thou canst not have utterly rejected us, And be exceeding wroth against us! [Turn us unto Thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.] |