Darby's English Translation

Lamentations 4

The Lamentations of Jeremiah

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Chapter 5

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  Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.  

 

 

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

 

 

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3


 

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

 

 

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4


 

  Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.  

 

 

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5


 

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

 

 

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6


 

  We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.  

 

 

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7


 

  Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.  

 

 

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8


 

  Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.  

 

 

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9


 

  We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.  

 

 

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10


 

  Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.  

 

 

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11


 

  They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.  

 

 

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12


 

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

 

 

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13


 

  The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.  

 

 

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14


 

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

 

 

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15


 

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

 

 

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16


 

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

 

 

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17


 

  For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,  

 

 

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18


 

  Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.  

 

 

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19


 

  Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.  

 

 

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20


 

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

 

 

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21


 

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

 

 

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22


 

  Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?  

 

 

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Ezekiel 1

 

 

 

 

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