English Bible Presentation Sharing - Lamentations Book, chapter 5, verse 51 in Lxxen Version

Lamentations 5 : 1 (LXXEN)

Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.

Lamentations 5 : 2 (LXXEN)

Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:

Lamentations 5 : 3 (LXXEN)

we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.

Lamentations 5 : 4 (LXXEN)

We have drunk our water for money; our wood is *Lit. has come upon our neck in exchange sold to us for a burden on our neck:

Lamentations 5 : 5 (LXXEN)

we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.

Lamentations 5 : 6 (LXXEN)

Egypt gave the hand to us, Assur to their *See Heb. own satisfaction.

Lamentations 5 : 7 (LXXEN)

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

Lamentations 5 : 8 (LXXEN)

Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom us out of their hand.

Lamentations 5 : 9 (LXXEN)

We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

Lamentations 5 : 10 (LXXEN)

Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.

Lamentations 5 : 11 (LXXEN)

They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.

Lamentations 5 : 12 (LXXEN)

Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured.

Lamentations 5 : 13 (LXXEN)

The chosen men lifted up the voice in weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.

Lamentations 5 : 14 (LXXEN)

And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their *Or, psalms, or songs music.

Lamentations 5 : 15 (LXXEN)

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

Lamentations 5 : 16 (LXXEN)

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

Lamentations 5 : 17 (LXXEN)

For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.

Lamentations 5 : 18 (LXXEN)

Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.

Lamentations 5 : 19 (LXXEN)

But thou, O Lord, shalt dwell for ever; thy throne shall endure to generation and generation.

Lamentations 5 : 20 (LXXEN)

Wherefore wilt thou *See Heb. utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?

Lamentations 5 : 21 (LXXEN)

Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.

Lamentations 5 : 22 (LXXEN)

For thou hast indeed rejected us; thou hast been very wroth against us.