English Bible Presentation Sharing - Lamentations Book, chapter 5, verse 8 in Kjv Version

Lamentations 5 : 1 (KJV)

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

Lamentations 5 : 2 (KJV)

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Lamentations 5 : 3 (KJV)

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Lamentations 5 : 4 (KJV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 5 (KJV)

Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

Lamentations 5 : 6 (KJV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 7 (KJV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 8 (KJV)

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

Lamentations 5 : 9 (KJV)

We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

Lamentations 5 : 10 (KJV)

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

Lamentations 5 : 11 (KJV)

They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

Lamentations 5 : 12 (KJV)

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

Lamentations 5 : 13 (KJV)

They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

Lamentations 5 : 14 (KJV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 15 (KJV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 16 (KJV)

The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

Lamentations 5 : 17 (KJV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 18 (KJV)

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

Lamentations 5 : 19 (KJV)

Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

Lamentations 5 : 20 (KJV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 21 (KJV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 22 (KJV)

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