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look, and see our disgrace.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">We have become fatherless, our mothers are widows.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Our pursuers are at our necks; we are weary; we are given no rest.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Our ancestors sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Women are raped in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Young men are compelled to grind at the mill, and boys stagger under loads of wood.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You, LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us so long?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Why do you forget us forever, why do you forsake us for so many days?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Restore us to yourself, LORD, that we may return; renew our days as of old<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old—</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">unless you have utterly rejected us, and you remain exceedingly angry with us.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><a href="//niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="//biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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