Lamentations · Bible in Basic English
Lamentations 5 Bible in Basic English
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Lamentations is not in PT1904.
1 Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.
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2 Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
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3 We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
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4 We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
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5 Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
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6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.
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7 Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.
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8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
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9 We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
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10 Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
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11 They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
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12 Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
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13 The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
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14 The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
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15 The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
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16 The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
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17 Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
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18 Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.
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19 You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.
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20 Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?
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21 Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.
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22 But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.
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Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 44:13–16; Psalm 89:50–51; Lamentations 3:61; Psalm 79:12; Jeremiah 15:15
- 2 Isaiah 1:7; Zephaniah 1:13; Deuteronomy 28:30–68; Psalm 79:1–2; Isaiah 63:18
- 3 Jeremiah 18:21; Exodus 22:24; Jeremiah 15:8; Hosea 14:3
- 4 Isaiah 3:1; Deuteronomy 28:48; Ezekiel 4:9–17
- 5 Lamentations 1:14; Nehemiah 9:36–37; Jeremiah 28:14; Jeremiah 27:11–12; Deuteronomy 28:48
- 6 Hosea 12:1; Hosea 9:3; Jeremiah 2:18; Hosea 7:11; Genesis 24:2
- 7 Jeremiah 16:12; Jeremiah 31:29; Ezekiel 18:2; Jeremiah 14:20; Exodus 20:5
- 8 Nehemiah 5:15; Zechariah 11:6; Proverbs 30:22; Psalm 7:2; Hosea 2:10
- 9 Ezekiel 4:16–17; Ezekiel 12:18–19; Jeremiah 40:9–12; Jeremiah 41:18; Jeremiah 41:1–10
- 10 Lamentations 4:8; Job 30:30; Psalm 119:83; Lamentations 3:4
- 11 Isaiah 13:16; Zechariah 14:2; Deuteronomy 28:30
- 12 Lamentations 4:16; Isaiah 47:6; Jeremiah 52:10–11; Lamentations 2:20; Jeremiah 52:25–27
- 13 Judges 16:21; Matthew 23:4; Isaiah 47:2; Exodus 23:5; Nehemiah 5:1–5
- 14 Jeremiah 7:34; Isaiah 24:7–11; Revelation 18:22; Ezekiel 26:13; Lamentations 1:4
- 15 Amos 8:10; Jeremiah 25:10; Amos 6:4–7; Psalm 30:11; James 4:9–10
- 16 Psalm 89:39; Isaiah 3:9–11; Job 19:9; Jeremiah 13:18; Lamentations 1:1
- 17 Psalm 6:7; Isaiah 1:5; Lamentations 2:11; Job 17:7; Isaiah 38:14
- 18 Micah 3:12; Jeremiah 9:11; Lamentations 2:8–9; Isaiah 32:13–14; Psalm 74:2–3
- 19 Psalm 102:12; Hebrews 1:8–12; Psalm 45:6; Psalm 145:13; Psalm 102:25–27
- 20 Psalm 44:24; Psalm 13:1; Jeremiah 14:19–21; Isaiah 64:9–12; Psalm 74:1
- 21 Psalm 80:3; Psalm 80:7; Psalm 85:4; Jeremiah 31:18; Psalm 80:19
- 22 Psalm 60:1–2; Hosea 1:6; Ezekiel 37:11; Psalm 44:9; Isaiah 64:9
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences