English Bible Presentation Sharing - Lamentations Book, chapter 5, verse 40 in Rv Version

Lamentations 5 : 1 (RV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 2 (RV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 3 (RV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 4 (RV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 5 (RV)

Our pursuers are upon our necks: we are weary, and have no rest.

Lamentations 5 : 6 (RV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 7 (RV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 8 (RV)

Servants rule over us: there is none to deliver us out of their hand.

Lamentations 5 : 9 (RV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 10 (RV)

Our skin is black like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.

Lamentations 5 : 11 (RV)

They ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities of Judah.

Lamentations 5 : 12 (RV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 13 (RV)

The young men bare the mill, and the children stumbled under the wood.

Lamentations 5 : 14 (RV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 15 (RV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 16 (RV)

The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us! for we have sinned.

Lamentations 5 : 17 (RV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 18 (RV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 19 (RV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 20 (RV)

Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, cf15i and forsake us so long time?

Lamentations 5 : 21 (RV)

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

Lamentations 5 : 22 (RV)

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