English Bible Presentation Sharing - Lamentations Book, chapter 5, verse 56 in Web Version

Lamentations 5 : 1 (WEB)

Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.

Lamentations 5 : 2 (WEB)

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

Lamentations 5 : 3 (WEB)

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

Lamentations 5 : 4 (WEB)

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

Lamentations 5 : 5 (WEB)

Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

Lamentations 5 : 6 (WEB)

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

Lamentations 5 : 7 (WEB)

Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.

Lamentations 5 : 8 (WEB)

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

Lamentations 5 : 9 (WEB)

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

Lamentations 5 : 10 (WEB)

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

Lamentations 5 : 11 (WEB)

They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

Lamentations 5 : 12 (WEB)

Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

Lamentations 5 : 13 (WEB)

The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.

Lamentations 5 : 14 (WEB)

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

Lamentations 5 : 15 (WEB)

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

Lamentations 5 : 16 (WEB)

The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.

Lamentations 5 : 17 (WEB)

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

Lamentations 5 : 18 (WEB)

For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.

Lamentations 5 : 19 (WEB)

You, Yahweh, abide forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.

Lamentations 5 : 20 (WEB)

Why do you forget us forever, And forsake us so long time?

Lamentations 5 : 21 (WEB)

Turn you us to you, Yahweh, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.

Lamentations 5 : 22 (WEB)

But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.