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href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>LORD, remember what has happened to us.</p><p class="line2">See how we have been disgraced!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,</p><p class="line2">our homes to foreigners.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>We are orphaned and fatherless.</p><p class="line2">Our mothers are widowed.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>We have to pay for water to drink,</p><p class="line2">and even firewood is expensive.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Those who pursue us are at our heels;</p><p class="line2">we are exhausted but are given no rest.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>We submitted to Egypt and Assyria</p><p class="line2">to get enough food to survive.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Our ancestors sinned, but they have died—</p><p class="line2">and we are suffering the punishment they deserved!</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Slaves have now become our masters;</p><p class="line2">there is no one left to rescue us.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>We hunt for food at the risk of our lives,</p><p class="line2">for violence rules the countryside.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The famine has blackened our skin</p><p class="line2">as though baked in an oven.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Our enemies rape the women in Jerusalem<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></p><p class="line2">and the young girls in all the towns of Judah.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs,</p><p class="line2">and our elders are treated with contempt.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Young men are led away to work at millstones,</p><p class="line2">and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The elders no longer sit in the city gates;</p><p class="line2">the young men no longer dance and sing.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Joy has left our hearts;</p><p class="line2">our dancing has turned to mourning.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The garlands have<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> fallen from our heads.</p><p class="line2">Weep for us because we have sinned.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Our hearts are sick and weary,</p><p class="line2">and our eyes grow dim with tears.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For Jerusalem<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> is empty and desolate,</p><p class="line2">a place haunted by jackals.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But LORD, you remain the same forever!</p><p class="line2">Your throne continues from generation to generation.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Why do you continue to forget us?</p><p class="line2">Why have you abandoned us for so long?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Restore us, O LORD, and bring us back to you again!</p><p class="line2">Give us back the joys we once had!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Or have you utterly rejected us?</p><p class="line2">Are you angry with us still?</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:11 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">in Zion.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">The crown has.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Mount Zion.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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