Lamentations 5 : 1 (NLT)
LORD, remember what has happened to us. See how we have been disgraced!
Lamentations 5 : 2 (NLT)
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
Lamentations 5 : 3 (NLT)
We are orphaned and fatherless. Our mothers are widowed.
Lamentations 5 : 4 (NLT)
We have to pay for water to drink, and even firewood is expensive.
Lamentations 5 : 5 (NLT)
Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are exhausted but are given no rest.
Lamentations 5 : 6 (NLT)
We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough food to survive.
Lamentations 5 : 7 (NLT)
Our ancestors sinned, but they have died-- and we are suffering the punishment they deserved!
Lamentations 5 : 8 (NLT)
Slaves have now become our masters; there is no one left to rescue us.
Lamentations 5 : 9 (NLT)
We hunt for food at the risk of our lives, for violence rules the countryside.
Lamentations 5 : 10 (NLT)
The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven.
Lamentations 5 : 11 (NLT)
Our enemies rape the women in Jerusalem and the young girls in all the towns of Judah.
Lamentations 5 : 12 (NLT)
Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs, and our elders are treated with contempt.
Lamentations 5 : 13 (NLT)
Young men are led away to work at millstones, and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood.
Lamentations 5 : 14 (NLT)
The elders no longer sit in the city gates; the young men no longer dance and sing.
Lamentations 5 : 15 (NLT)
Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
Lamentations 5 : 16 (NLT)
The garlands have fallen from our heads. Weep for us because we have sinned.
Lamentations 5 : 17 (NLT)
Our hearts are sick and weary, and our eyes grow dim with tears.
Lamentations 5 : 18 (NLT)
For Jerusalem is empty and desolate, a place haunted by jackals.
Lamentations 5 : 19 (NLT)
But LORD, you remain the same forever! Your throne continues from generation to generation.
Lamentations 5 : 20 (NLT)
Why do you continue to forget us? Why have you abandoned us for so long?
Lamentations 5 : 21 (NLT)
Restore us, O LORD, and bring us back to you again! Give us back the joys we once had!
Lamentations 5 : 22 (NLT)
Or have you utterly rejected us? Are you angry with us still?
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