### Darby's English Translation

Lamentations 4

## The Lamentations of Jeremiah

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| # Chapter 5
| Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.
| Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
| We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
| Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.
| Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
| We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
| Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.
| Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
| We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
| Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
| They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.
| Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.
| The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.
| The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
| The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
| The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!
| For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,
| Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
| Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.
| Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?
| Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
| Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?

Ezekiel 1

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