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Lamentations 5:1¹O Lord, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 44:13-16 Ps 89:50-51 Hab 3:2 Jer 15:15 Lam 2:15 Lam 3:19 Lam 3:61 Neh 4:4 Ps 123:3-4 Ps 74:10-11

Lamentations 5:2²Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 1:7 Zeph 1:13 Deut 28:30-68 Ps 79:1-2 Ezek 7:21 Ezek 7:24 Isa 5:17 Isa 63:18 Jer 6:12

Lamentations 5:3³We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 22:24 Jer 18:21 Hos 14:3 Jer 15:8

Lamentations 5:4⁴We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 3:1 Deut 28:48 Ezek 4:9-17

Lamentations 5:5⁵We are pursued—they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lam 1:14 Neh 9:36-37 Deut 28:48 Jer 27:11-12 Jer 27:8 Jer 28:14 Acts 15:10 Deut 28:65-66 Jer 27:2 Lam 4:19

Lamentations 5:6⁶We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hos 12:1 Hos 9:3 Gen 24:2 Hos 5:13 Hos 7:11 Jer 2:18 Jer 2:36 2 Kgs 10:15 Ezek 17:18 Isa 30:1-6

Lamentations 5:7⁷Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 16:12 Jer 31:29 Ezek 18:2 Jer 14:20 Exod 20:5 Gen 42:36 Jer 31:15 Matt 23:32-36 Job 7:21 Gen 42:13

Lamentations 5:8⁸Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Neh 5:15 Prov 30:22 Zech 11:6 Ps 7:2 Deut 28:43 Gen 9:25 Hos 2:10 Isa 43:13 Job 10:7 Job 5:4

Lamentations 5:9⁹At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the wilderness.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 4:16-17 Ezek 12:18-19 Jer 40:9-12 2 Sam 23:17 Jer 41:1-10 Jer 41:18 Jer 42:14 Jer 42:16 Judg 6:11

Lamentations 5:10¹⁰Our skin is as hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lam 4:8 Job 30:30 Ps 119:83 Lam 3:4

Lamentations 5:11¹¹They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 13:16 Zech 14:2 Deut 28:30

Lamentations 5:12¹²Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lam 4:16 Isa 47:6 Jer 39:6-7 Jer 52:10-11 Jer 52:25-27 Lam 2:10 Lam 2:20

Lamentations 5:13¹³The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 16:21 Matt 23:4 Exod 1:11 Exod 11:5 Exod 2:11 Exod 23:5 Isa 47:2 Isa 58:6 Job 31:10 Neh 5:1-5

Lamentations 5:14¹⁴The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 7:34 Ezek 26:13 Isa 24:7-11 Rev 18:22 Deut 16:18 Isa 3:2-3 Jer 16:9 Jer 25:10 Job 29:7-17 Job 30:1

Lamentations 5:15¹⁵Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 8:10 Jer 25:10 Amos 6:4-7 Jas 4:9-10 Ps 30:11

Lamentations 5:16¹⁶The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 89:39 Isa 3:9-11 Jer 13:18 Job 19:9 Lam 1:1 Lam 4:13 Ezek 21:26 Ezek 22:12-16 Ezek 7:17-22 Jer 2:17

Lamentations 5:17¹⁷Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 1:5 Ps 6:7 Job 17:7 Lam 2:11 Isa 38:14 Deut 28:65 Ezek 21:15 Ezek 21:7 Jer 46:5 Jer 8:18

Lamentations 5:18¹⁸For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mic 3:12 Jer 9:11 1 Kgs 9:7-8 Isa 32:13-14 Jer 17:3 Jer 26:9 Jer 52:13 Lam 2:8-9 Ps 74:2-3

Lamentations 5:19¹⁹But you, O Lord, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 102:12 Heb 1:8-12 Ps 45:6 Ps 102:25-27 Ps 145:13 Ps 9:7 1 Tim 1:17 Rev 1:8 Hab 1:12 Heb 13:8

Lamentations 5:20²⁰Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 13:1 Ps 44:24 Jer 14:19-21 Isa 64:9-12 Ps 74:1 Ps 77:7-10 Ps 79:5 Ps 85:5 Ps 89:46 Ps 94:3-4

Lamentations 5:21²¹Bring us back to yourself, O Lord, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 80:3 Ps 80:7 Ps 85:4 Jer 31:18 Ps 80:19 Zech 8:3-6 Ezek 36:37 Ezek 11:19-20 Ezek 36:25-27 Hab 3:2

Lamentations 5:22²²unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hos 1:6 Ps 60:1-2 Ezek 37:11 Isa 64:9 Jer 15:1-5 Ps 44:9

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