Lamentations 5

Lamentations 5 in full

King James Version, 22 verses. Tap a reference to link straight to a single verse.

1. Lam 5:1

   Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

2. Lam 5:2

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

3. Lam 5:3

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

4. Lam 5:4

   We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

5. Lam 5:5

   Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

6. Lam 5:6

   We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7. Lam 5:7

   Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

8. Lam 5:8

   Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

9. Lam 5:9

   We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

10. Lam 5:10

    Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

11. Lam 5:11

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

12. Lam 5:12

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

13. Lam 5:13

    They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

14. Lam 5:14

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

15. Lam 5:15

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

16. Lam 5:16

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

17. Lam 5:17

    For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

18. Lam 5:18

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

19. Lam 5:19

    Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

20. Lam 5:20

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

21. Lam 5:21

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

22. Lam 5:22

    But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

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Lamentations 5 is part of Lamentations, book 25 of the 66 in the King James Bible. Read the 5 chapters straight through, or search any word across all 66 books.