### Douay Rheims Bible

Lamentations 4

## The Lamentations of Jeremiah

Return to Index

| # Chapter 5
#### 1 | Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
#### 2 | Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
#### 3 | We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
#### 4 | We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
#### 5 | We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
#### 6 | We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
#### 7 | Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
#### 8 | Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
#### 9 | We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
#### 10 | Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
#### 11 | They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
#### 12 | The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.
#### 13 | They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
#### 14 | The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
#### 15 | The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
#### 16 | The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.
#### 17 | Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,
#### 18 | For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
#### 19 | But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
#### 20 | Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?
#### 21 | Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.
#### 22 | But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.

Ezekiel 1

Public Domain Software by johnhurt.com