### Noah Webster Bible

Lamentations 4

## The Lamentations of Jeremiah

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| # Chapter 5
| Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
| Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
| We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
| We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
| Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
| We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
| Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
| Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
| We procured our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
| Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
| They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
| Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
| They took the young men to grind, and the children fell 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 to us, that we have sinned!
| For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
| Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
| Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
| Why dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
| Turn thou us to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
| But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

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