English Bible Presentation Sharing - Lamentations Book, chapter 5, verse 49 in Asv Version

Lamentations 5 : 1 (ASV)

Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.

Lamentations 5 : 2 (ASV)

Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.

Lamentations 5 : 3 (ASV)

We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

Lamentations 5 : 4 (ASV)

We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

Lamentations 5 : 5 (ASV)

Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

Lamentations 5 : 6 (ASV)

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Lamentations 5 : 7 (ASV)

Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

Lamentations 5 : 8 (ASV)

Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

Lamentations 5 : 9 (ASV)

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

Lamentations 5 : 10 (ASV)

Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

Lamentations 5 : 11 (ASV)

They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

Lamentations 5 : 12 (ASV)

Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

Lamentations 5 : 13 (ASV)

The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.

Lamentations 5 : 14 (ASV)

The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.

Lamentations 5 : 15 (ASV)

The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

Lamentations 5 : 16 (ASV)

The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

Lamentations 5 : 17 (ASV)

For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

Lamentations 5 : 18 (ASV)

For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.

Lamentations 5 : 19 (ASV)

Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.

Lamentations 5 : 20 (ASV)

Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time?

Lamentations 5 : 21 (ASV)

Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.

Lamentations 5 : 22 (ASV)

But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.