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<A name="3"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, <p class="indent2"> our houses to foreigners. <A name="4"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>We have become fatherless orphans; <p class="indent2"> our mothers are widows. <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>We must buy the water we drink; <p class="indent2"> our wood comes at a price. <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>We are closely pursued; <p class="indent2"> we are weary and find no rest. <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>We submitted to Egypt and Assyria <p class="indent2"> to get enough bread. <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Our fathers sinned and are no more, <p class="indent2"> but we bear their punishment. <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Slaves rule over us; <p class="indent2"> there is no one to deliver us from their hands. <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>We get our bread at the risk of our lives <p class="indent2"> because of the sword in the wilderness. <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Our skin is as hot as an oven <p class="indent2"> with fever from our hunger. <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Women have been ravished in Zion, <p class="indent2"> virgins in the cities of Judah. <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Princes have been hung up by their hands; <p class="indent2"> elders receive no respect. <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Young men toil at millstones; <p class="indent2"> boys stagger under loads of wood. <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The elders have left the city gate; <p class="indent2"> the young men have stopped their music. <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Joy has left our hearts; <p class="indent2"> our dancing has turned to mourning. <A name="17"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The crown has fallen from our head. <p class="indent2"> Woe to us, for we have sinned! <A name="18"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Because of this, our hearts are faint; <p class="indent2"> because of these, our eyes grow dim— <A name="19"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, <p class="indent2"> patrolled by foxes. <A name="20"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>You, O LORD, reign forever; <p class="indent2"> Your throne endures from generation to generation. <A name="21"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Why have You forgotten us forever? <p class="indent2"> Why have You forsaken us for so long? <A name="22"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; <p class="indent2"> renew our days as of old, <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>unless You have utterly rejected us <p class="indent2"> and remain angry with us beyond measure.</p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Standard Bible (BSB)</a> printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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