Lamentations · Berean Standard Bible
Lamentations 5 Berean Standard Bible
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Lamentations is not in PT1904.
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1 Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
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2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
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4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
4 We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.
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5 We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
5 Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
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6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.
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8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
8 Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
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9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
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10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
10 Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
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11 Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
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12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
12 Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.
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13 Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
13 The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
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14 The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.
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15 Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.
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16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
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17 Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
17 For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:
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18 because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
18 for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.
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19 You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
19 You, Yahweh, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.
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20 Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
20 Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
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21 Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,
21 Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.
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22 unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
22 But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry 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