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Lamentations Chapter 5

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LAMENTATIONS

Lamentations 5

1Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
Psalms 44:13, Psalms 44:16, Psalms 44:13, Psalms 44:16, Psalms 89:50
2Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
Zephaniah 1:13, Isaiah 1:7, Zephaniah 1:13, Isaiah 1:7, Psalms 79:1
3We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
Jeremiah 18:21, Exodus 22:24, Jeremiah 18:21, Exodus 22:24, Jeremiah 15:8
4We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
Isaiah 3:1, Isaiah 3:1, Ezekiel 4:9, Ezekiel 4:17, Ezekiel 4:9
5We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
Nehemiah 9:36, Nehemiah 9:37, Nehemiah 9:36, Nehemiah 9:37, Lamentations 1:14
6We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
Hosea 12:1, Hosea 9:3, Hosea 12:1, Hosea 9:3, Jeremiah 2:36
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
Jeremiah 31:29, Jeremiah 31:29, Jeremiah 16:12, Jeremiah 16:12, Jeremiah 14:20
8Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
Zechariah 11:6, Nehemiah 5:15, Zechariah 11:6, Nehemiah 5:15, Psalms 7:2
9We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 4:17, Ezekiel 12:18, Ezekiel 12:19, Jeremiah 40:9
10Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
Lamentations 4:8, Lamentations 4:8, Job 30:30, Job 30:30, Psalms 119:83
11They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
Zechariah 14:2, Isaiah 13:16, Zechariah 14:2, Isaiah 13:16, Deuteronomy 28:30
12The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.
Lamentations 4:16, Lamentations 4:16, Isaiah 47:6, Isaiah 47:6, Lamentations 2:10
13They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
Judges 16:21, Judges 16:21, Exodus 11:5, Isaiah 58:6, Exodus 23:5
14The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
Jeremiah 7:34, Jeremiah 7:34, Isaiah 24:7, Isaiah 24:11, Ezekiel 26:13
15The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
Jeremiah 25:10, Amos 8:10, Jeremiah 25:10, Amos 8:10, James 4:9
16The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.
Psalms 89:39, Psalms 89:39, Isaiah 3:9, Isaiah 3:11, Job 19:9
17Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.
Isaiah 1:5, Isaiah 1:5, Psalms 6:7, Lamentations 2:11, Job 17:7
18For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
Micah 3:12, Micah 3:12, Jeremiah 9:11, Jeremiah 9:11, 1 Kings 9:7
19But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
Psalms 102:12, Psalms 102:12, Psalms 45:6, Hebrews 1:8, Hebrews 1:12
20Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?
Psalms 44:24, Psalms 13:1, Psalms 44:24, Psalms 13:1, Jeremiah 14:19
21Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.
Psalms 80:3, Psalms 80:3, Psalms 80:7, Psalms 80:7, Psalms 85:4
22But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry with us.
Psalms 60:1, Psalms 60:2, Psalms 60:1, Psalms 60:2, Ezekiel 37:11

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