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Lamentations Chapter 5

Noyes
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LAMENTATIONS

Lamentations 5

1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us! Look down and behold our reproach!
Psalms 44:13, Psalms 44:16, Psalms 44:13, Psalms 44:16, Psalms 89:50
2Our inheritance is fallen to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
Zephaniah 1:13, Isaiah 1:7, Zephaniah 1:13, Isaiah 1:7, Psalms 79:1
3We are orphans; we are without a father; Our mothers are as widows.
Jeremiah 18:21, Exodus 22:24, Jeremiah 18:21, Exodus 22:24, Jeremiah 15:8
4Our water we drink for money; Our wood is sold to us.
Isaiah 3:1, Isaiah 3:1, Ezekiel 4:9, Ezekiel 4:17, Ezekiel 4:9
5With the yoke upon our necks, we are driven; We are wearied, and have no rest.
Nehemiah 9:36, Nehemiah 9:37, Nehemiah 9:36, Nehemiah 9:37, Lamentations 1:14
6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Hosea 12:1, Hosea 9:3, Hosea 12:1, Hosea 9:3, Jeremiah 2:36
7Our fathers sinned; they are no more, And we bear their iniquities.
Jeremiah 31:29, Jeremiah 31:29, Jeremiah 16:12, Jeremiah 16:12, Jeremiah 14:20
8Servants rule over us; There is none that delivereth out of their hand.
Zechariah 11:6, Nehemiah 5:15, Zechariah 11:6, Nehemiah 5:15, Psalms 7:2
9With the peril of our lives we get our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 4:17, Ezekiel 12:18, Ezekiel 12:19, Jeremiah 40:9
10Our skin is parched like an oven Because of the burnings of hunger.
Lamentations 4:8, Lamentations 4:8, Job 30:30, Job 30:30, Psalms 119:83
11Matrons in Zion have they ravished, And maidens in the cities of Judah.
Zechariah 14:2, Isaiah 13:16, Zechariah 14:2, Isaiah 13:16, Deuteronomy 28:30
12Princes were hanged up by their hand; The faces of the elders were not honored.
Lamentations 4:16, Lamentations 4:16, Isaiah 47:6, Isaiah 47:6, Lamentations 2:10
13Young men carried millstones, And boys fell under burdens of wood.
Judges 16:21, Judges 16:21, Exodus 11:5, Isaiah 58:6, Exodus 23:5
14The elders sit no more at the gate; The young men have ceased from their music.
Jeremiah 7:34, Jeremiah 7:34, Isaiah 24:7, Isaiah 24:11, Ezekiel 26:13
15The joy of our heart is at an end; 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 unto us, that we have sinned!
Psalms 89:39, Psalms 89:39, Isaiah 3:9, Isaiah 3:11, Job 19:9
17For this is our heart faint, For these things our eyes are dim;
Isaiah 1:5, Isaiah 1:5, Psalms 6:7, Lamentations 2:11, Job 17:7
18On account of mount Zion, which is desolate; Foxes roam over it.
Micah 3:12, Micah 3:12, Jeremiah 9:11, Jeremiah 9:11, 1 Kings 9:7
19But thou, O Jehovah, sittest as king forever; Thy throne endureth from generation to generation.
Psalms 102:12, Psalms 102:12, Psalms 45:6, Hebrews 1:8, Hebrews 1:12
20Wherefore dost thou wholly forget us, And abandon us, for so long a time?
Psalms 44:24, Psalms 13:1, Psalms 44:24, Psalms 13:1, Jeremiah 14:19
21Turn us again to thee, O Jehovah, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old!
Psalms 80:3, Psalms 80:3, Psalms 80:7, Psalms 80:7, Psalms 85:4
22For shouldst thou utterly reject us? Shouldst thou be so exceedingly wroth against us?
Psalms 60:1, Psalms 60:2, Psalms 60:1, Psalms 60:2, Ezekiel 37:11

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