Thematic Bible




Lamentations 5:1 (show verse)

O Lord, remember what has come upon us;
Look, and see our reproach (national disgrace)!

Lamentations 5:2 (show verse)


Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
Our houses to foreigners.
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 5:3 (show verse)


We have become orphans without a father;
Our mothers are like widows.

Lamentations 5:4 (show verse)


We have to pay for our drinking water;
Our wood comes to us at a price.

Lamentations 5:5 (show verse)


Our pursuers are at our necks;
We are worn out, there is no rest for us.

Lamentations 5:6 (show verse)


We have given the hand [as a pledge of fidelity and submission] to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

Lamentations 5:7 (show verse)


Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
It is we who have carried their sin.

Lamentations 5:8 (show verse)


Servants rule over us;
There is no one to rescue us out of their hand.
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 5:9 (show verse)


We get our bread at the risk of our lives
Because of the sword [of the Arabs] in the wilderness [who may attack if we go out to harvest the crop].
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 5:10 (show verse)


Our skin is as hot as [the heat of] an oven
Because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.

Lamentations 5:11 (show verse)


They ravished the women in Zion,
The virgins in the cities of Judah.

Lamentations 5:12 (show verse)


Princes were hung by their hands;
Elders were not respected.

Lamentations 5:13 (show verse)


Young men worked at the grinding mill,
And boys fell [staggering] under loads of wood.

Lamentations 5:14 (show verse)


Elders are gone from the gate;
Young men from their music.

Lamentations 5:15 (show verse)


The joy of our hearts has ended;
Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

Lamentations 5:16 (show verse)


The crown has fallen from our head [our honor is covered with dust]!
Woe to us, for we have sinned!
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 5:17 (show verse)


Because of this our heart is faint,
Because of these things our eyes are dim.
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 5:18 (show verse)


As for Mount Zion, which lies desolate,
Foxes and the jackals prowl over it.

Lamentations 5:19 (show verse)


But You, O Lord, reign forever;
Your throne endures from generation to [all] generations.

Lamentations 5:20 (show verse)


Why do You forget us forever?
Why do You forsake us so long?
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 5:21 (show verse)


Return us to You, O Lord, so that we may be restored;
Renew our days as of old,

Lamentations 5:22 (show verse)


Unless You have utterly rejected us
And are exceedingly angry with us.
No Themes for this verse.