English Bible Presentation Sharing - Lamentations Book, chapter 5, verse 43 in Mkjv Version

Lamentations 5 : 1 (MKJV)

Remember, O Jehovah, what has been to us; look down and see our shame.

Lamentations 5 : 2 (MKJV)

Our inheritance has turned to aliens, our houses to foreigners.

Lamentations 5 : 3 (MKJV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 4 (MKJV)

We have drunk our water for silver; our wood comes for a price.

Lamentations 5 : 5 (MKJV)

We are pursued on our necks; we grow weary; rest is not given to us.

Lamentations 5 : 6 (MKJV)

We have given the hand to Egypt, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.

Lamentations 5 : 7 (MKJV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 8 (MKJV)

Servants rule over us; there is no rescuer out of their hand.

Lamentations 5 : 9 (MKJV)

We bring in our bread with our souls, because of the sword of the wilderness.

Lamentations 5 : 10 (MKJV)

Our skin is hot like an oven because of the fever heat of famine.

Lamentations 5 : 11 (MKJV)

They raped the women in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

Lamentations 5 : 12 (MKJV)

Rulers were hanged by the hand; the faces of elders were not honored.

Lamentations 5 : 13 (MKJV)

They took the young men to grind, and the youths stumbled at the wood.

Lamentations 5 : 14 (MKJV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 15 (MKJV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 16 (MKJV)

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe now to us! For we have sinned.

Lamentations 5 : 17 (MKJV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 18 (MKJV)

On the mountain of Zion is laid waste, the foxes walk on it.

Lamentations 5 : 19 (MKJV)

You, O Jehovah, remain forever; Your throne to generation and generation.

Lamentations 5 : 20 (MKJV)

Why do You forget us forever and forsake us the length of days?

Lamentations 5 : 21 (MKJV)

Return us to You, O Jehovah, and we will turn; renew our days as of old,

Lamentations 5 : 22 (MKJV)

unless You have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.