Lamentations 5Lamentations5

Berean Standard BibleKing James Version

1. A Prayer for Restoration

2. 1BSBRemember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!KJVKJV: Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
3. 2BSBOur inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.KJVKJV: Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
4. 3BSBWe have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.KJVKJV: We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
5. 4BSBWe must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.KJVKJV: We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
6. 5BSBWe are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.KJVKJV: Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
7. 6BSBWe submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.KJVKJV: We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
8. 7BSBOur fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.KJVKJV: Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
9. 8BSBSlaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.KJVKJV: Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
10. 9BSBWe get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.KJVKJV: We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
11. 10BSBOur skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.KJVKJV: Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
12. 11BSBWomen have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.KJVKJV: They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
13. 12BSBPrinces have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.KJVKJV: Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
14. 13BSBYoung men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.KJVKJV: They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
15. 14BSBThe elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.KJVKJV: The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
16. 15BSBJoy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.KJVKJV: The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
17. 16BSBThe crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!KJVKJV: The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
18. 17BSBBecause of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—KJVKJV: For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
19. 18BSBbecause of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.KJVKJV: Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
20. 19BSBYou, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.KJVKJV: Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
21. 20BSBWhy have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?KJVKJV: Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
22. 21BSBRestore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,KJVKJV: Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
23. 22BSBunless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.KJVKJV: But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.