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name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Our inheritance has been turned to strangers, "" Our houses to foreigners.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Orphans we have been—without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>We have drunk our water for money, "" Our wood comes for a price.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For our neck we have been pursued, "" We have labored—there has been no rest for us.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>[To] Egypt we have given a hand, "" [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Our fathers have sinned—they are not, "" We have borne their iniquities.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Servants have ruled over us, "" There is no deliverer from their hand.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>With our lives we bring in our bread, "" Because of the sword of the wilderness.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Our skin as an oven has been burning, "" Because of the raging of the famine.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Wives in Zion they have humbled, "" Virgins—in cities of Judah.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Princes have been hanged by their hand, "" Elderly faces have not been honored.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They have taken young men to grind, "" And youths have stumbled with wood.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Elderly have ceased from the gate, "" Young men from their song.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The joy of our heart has ceased, "" Our dancing has been turned to mourning.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The crown has fallen [from] our head, "" Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Our heart has been sick for this, "" Our eyes have been dim for these.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For the Mount of Zion—that is desolate, "" Foxes have gone up on it.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>You, O YHWH, remain for all time, "" Your throne to generation and generation.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Why do You forget us forever? You forsake us for [the] length of [our] days!<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Turn us back, O YHWH, to You, "" And we turn back, renew our days as of old.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For have You utterly rejected us? You have been angry against us—exceedingly?<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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