English Bible Presentation Sharing - Lamentations Book, chapter 5, verse 38 in Hcsb Version

Lamentations 5 : 1 (HCSB)

Yahweh, remember what has happened to us. Look, and see our disgrace!

Lamentations 5 : 2 (HCSB)

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

Lamentations 5 : 3 (HCSB)

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

Lamentations 5 : 4 (HCSB)

We must pay for the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.

Lamentations 5 : 5 (HCSB)

We are closely pursued; we are tired, and no one offers us rest.

Lamentations 5 : 6 (HCSB)

We made a treaty with Egypt and with Assyria, to get enough food.

Lamentations 5 : 7 (HCSB)

Our fathers sinned; they no longer exist, but we bear their punishment.

Lamentations 5 : 8 (HCSB)

Slaves rule over us; no one rescues *us from their hands.

Lamentations 5 : 9 (HCSB)

We secure our food at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

Lamentations 5 : 10 (HCSB)

Our skin is as hot as an oven from the ravages of hunger.

Lamentations 5 : 11 (HCSB)

Women are raped in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

Lamentations 5 : 12 (HCSB)

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

Lamentations 5 : 13 (HCSB)

Young men labor at millstones; boys stumble under *loads of wood.

Lamentations 5 : 14 (HCSB)

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

Lamentations 5 : 15 (HCSB)

Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

Lamentations 5 : 16 (HCSB)

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.

Lamentations 5 : 17 (HCSB)

Because of this, our heart is sick; because of these, our eyes grow dim:

Lamentations 5 : 18 (HCSB)

because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate *and has jackals prowling in it.

Lamentations 5 : 19 (HCSB)

You, LORD, are enthroned forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.

Lamentations 5 : 20 (HCSB)

Why have You forgotten us forever, abandoned us for *our entire lives?

Lamentations 5 : 21 (HCSB)

LORD, restore us to Yourself, so we may return; renew our days as in former times,

Lamentations 5 : 22 (HCSB)

unless You have completely rejected us and are intensely angry with us.