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id="topheading"><a href="../lamentations/4.htm" title="Lamentations 4">◄</a> Lamentations 5 <a href="../ezekiel/1.htm" title="Ezekiel 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/lamentations/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Remember, <span class="name">Lord</span>, what has happened to us;</p><p class="line2">look, and see our disgrace.</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 have become fatherless,</p><p class="line2">our mothers are widows.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>We must buy the water we drink;</p><p class="line2">our wood can be had only at a price.</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 weary and find 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 bread.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Our ancestors sinned and are no more,</p><p class="line2">and we bear their punishment.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Slaves rule over us,</p><p class="line2">and there is no one to free us from their hands.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>We get our bread at the risk of our lives</p><p class="line2">because of the sword in the desert.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Our skin is hot as an oven,</p><p class="line2">feverish from hunger.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Women have been violated in Zion,</p><p class="line2">and virgins in 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>Princes have been hung up by their hands;</p><p class="line2">elders are shown no respect.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Young men toil at the millstones;</p><p class="line2">boys stagger under 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 are gone from the city gate;</p><p class="line2">the young men have stopped their music.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Joy is gone from 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 crown has fallen from our head.</p><p class="line2">Woe to us, for we have sinned!</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Because of this our hearts are faint,</p><p class="line2">because of these things our eyes grow dim</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>for Mount Zion, which lies desolate,</p><p class="line2">with jackals prowling over it.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>You, <span class="name">Lord</span>, reign forever;</p><p class="line2">your throne endures 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 always forget us?</p><p class="line2">Why do you forsake us 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 to yourself, <span class="name">Lord</span>, that we may return;</p><p class="line2">renew our days as of old</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>unless you have utterly rejected us</p><p class="line2">and are angry with us beyond measure.</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://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="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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