Lamentations 5
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Lamentations 5
A Plea for Mercy
1 #
Ps 44.13–16; 89.50 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
look, and see our disgrace!
2 #
Ps 79.1; Zeph 1.13 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our homes to aliens.
3We have become orphans, fatherless;
our mothers are like widows.
4We must pay for the water we drink;
the wood we get must be bought.
5 #
Neh 9.36, 37; Jer 28.14 With a yoke#5.5 Symmachus: Heb lacks With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven;
we are weary; we are given no rest.
6 #
Jer 2.36; Hos 5.13; 7.11; 9.3 We have made a pact with#5.6 Heb have given the hand to Egypt and Assyria
to get enough bread.
7 #
Jer 14.20
Our ancestors sinned; they are no more,
and we bear their iniquities.
8 #
Neh 5.15; Zech 11.6 Slaves rule over us;
there is no one to deliver us from their hand.
9We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 #
Lam 4.8
Our skin is black as an oven
from the scorching heat of famine.
11 #
Isa 13.16; Zech 14.2 Women are raped in Zion,
young women in the towns of Judah.
12 #
Lam 4.16
Princes are hung up by their hands;
no respect is shown to the elders.
13 #
Jer 7.18
Young men are compelled to grind,
and boys stagger under loads of wood.
14The old men have left the city gate,
the young men their music.
15 #
Jer 25.10
The joy of our hearts has ceased;
our dancing has been turned to mourning.
16The crown has fallen from our head;
woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 #
Ps 6.7; Isa 1.5 Because of this our hearts are sick;
because of these things our eyes have grown dim:
18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate;
jackals prowl over it.
19 #
Ps 9.7; 102.12, 25–27 But you, O Lord, reign forever;
your throne endures to all generations.
20 #
Ps 13.1
Why have you forgotten us completely?
Why have you forsaken us these many days?
21 #
Jer 31.18
Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored;
renew our days as of old—
22 #
Isa 64.9; Jer 7.29 unless you have utterly rejected us
and are angry with us beyond measure.
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