{"book":"Lamentations","slug":"lamentations","ch":5,"genre":"poetry","sub":"Lamentations","prev":"lamentations/4","next":"ezekiel/1","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us."},{"style":"indent2","t":"Look and see our disgrace!"}],"h":"A Prayer for Restoration","style":"indent1stline"},{"v":2,"t":"Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"our houses to foreigners."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":3,"t":"We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"We have become fatherless orphans;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"our mothers are widows."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":4,"t":"We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"We must buy the water we drink;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"our wood comes at a price."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":5,"t":"We are closely pursued; we are weary [and find] no rest.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"We are closely pursued;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"we are weary [and find] no rest."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":6,"t":"We submitted to Egypt [and] Assyria to get enough bread.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"We submitted to Egypt [and] Assyria"},{"style":"indent2","t":"to get enough bread."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":7,"t":"Our fathers sinned [and are] no more, but we bear their punishment.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Our fathers sinned [and are] no more,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"but we bear their punishment."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":8,"t":"Slaves rule over us; [there is] no one to deliver us from their hands.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Slaves rule over us;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"[there is] no one to deliver us from their hands."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":9,"t":"We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"We get our bread at the risk of our lives"},{"style":"indent2","t":"because of the sword in the wilderness."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":10,"t":"Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from [our] hunger.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Our skin is as hot as an oven"},{"style":"indent2","t":"with fever from [our] hunger."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":11,"t":"Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Women have been ravished in Zion,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"virgins in the cities of Judah."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":12,"t":"Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Princes have been hung up by their hands;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"elders receive no respect."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":13,"t":"Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Young men toil at millstones;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"boys stagger under loads of wood."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":14,"t":"The elders have left the city gate; the young men [have stopped] their music.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"The elders have left the city gate;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"the young men [have stopped] their music."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":15,"t":"Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Joy has left our hearts;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"our dancing has turned to mourning."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":16,"t":"The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"The crown has fallen from our head."},{"style":"indent2","t":"Woe to us, for we have sinned!"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":17,"t":"Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim —","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Because of this, our hearts are faint;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"because of these, our eyes grow dim —"}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":18,"t":"because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"patrolled by foxes."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":19,"t":"You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"You, O LORD, reign forever;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"Your throne endures from generation to generation."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":20,"t":"Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Why have You forgotten us forever?"},{"style":"indent2","t":"Why have You forsaken us for so long?"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":21,"t":"Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"renew our days as of old,"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":22,"t":"unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"unless You have utterly rejected us"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and remain angry with us beyond measure."}],"style":"indent1"}]}