Lamentations 5:10–18
10Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.↗
11They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.↗
12Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.↗
13The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.↗
14The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.↗
15The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.↗
16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!↗
17For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:↗
18for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.↗
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