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Lamentations
Poems mourning the fall of Jerusalem and expressing hope in God's mercy.
Chapter 5
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1
KJV:
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Geneva:
Remember, O Lorde, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.
2
KJV:
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Geneva:
Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.
3
KJV:
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Geneva:
We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.
4
KJV:
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
Geneva:
Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.
5
KJV:
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Geneva:
Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.
6
KJV:
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Geneva:
We haue giuen our handes to the Egyptians, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7
KJV:
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Geneva:
Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.
8
KJV:
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Geneva:
Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.
9
KJV:
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Geneva:
Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
10
KJV:
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Geneva:
Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
11
KJV:
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Geneva:
They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.
12
KJV:
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Geneva:
The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.
13
KJV:
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Geneva:
They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
14
KJV:
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
Geneva:
The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
15
KJV:
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Geneva:
The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.
16
KJV:
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Geneva:
The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.
17
KJV:
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Geneva:
Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,
18
KJV:
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Geneva:
Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.
19
KJV:
Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
Geneva:
But thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne is from generation to generation.
20
KJV:
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Geneva:
Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?
21
KJV:
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Geneva:
Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shalbe turned: renue our dayes as of olde.
22
KJV:
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
Geneva:
But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.
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