Lamentations 5:1–9
1Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.↗
2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.↗
3We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.↗
4We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.↗
5Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.↗
6We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.↗
7Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.↗
8Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.↗
9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.↗
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