English Bible Presentation Sharing - Lamentations Book, chapter 5, verse 31 in Esv Version

Lamentations 5 : 1 (ESV)

Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace!

Lamentations 5 : 2 (ESV)

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.

Lamentations 5 : 3 (ESV)

We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

Lamentations 5 : 4 (ESV)

We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought.

Lamentations 5 : 5 (ESV)

Our pursuers are at our necks; we are weary; we are given no rest.

Lamentations 5 : 6 (ESV)

We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.

Lamentations 5 : 7 (ESV)

Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.

Lamentations 5 : 8 (ESV)

Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.

Lamentations 5 : 9 (ESV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 10 (ESV)

Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.

Lamentations 5 : 11 (ESV)

Women are raped in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah.

Lamentations 5 : 12 (ESV)

Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.

Lamentations 5 : 13 (ESV)

Young men are compelled to grind at the mill, and boys stagger under loads of wood.

Lamentations 5 : 14 (ESV)

The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music.

Lamentations 5 : 15 (ESV)

The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.

Lamentations 5 : 16 (ESV)

The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

Lamentations 5 : 17 (ESV)

For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,

Lamentations 5 : 18 (ESV)

for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.

Lamentations 5 : 19 (ESV)

But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations.

Lamentations 5 : 20 (ESV)

Why do you forget us forever, why do you forsake us for so many days?

Lamentations 5 : 21 (ESV)

Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old-

Lamentations 5 : 22 (ESV)

unless you have utterly rejected us, and you remain exceedingly angry with us.