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Lamentations 5:1 (show verse)
LORD, remember what has happened to us. Pay attention, and look at our shame!
Lamentations 5:2 (show verse)
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, and our homes to foreigners.
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Lamentations 5:3 (show verse)
We are now orphans without fathers and our mothers are like widows.
Lamentations 5:4 (show verse)
We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high price.
Lamentations 5:5 (show verse)
Our pursuers breathe down our necks; we are weary, but there is no rest for us.
Lamentations 5:6 (show verse)
We made a deal with the Egyptians and the Assyrians for the price of food.
Lamentations 5:7 (show verse)
Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin.
Error » Definition of » Consequences of parents' sins upon children
Heredity » General references to
Judgments » Inflicted upon » Posterity of sinners
Parents » Curses entailed
Parents » Sins of, visited on their children
Parent's sins » Visited upon children » General references to
Punishment » Entailed » Upon children
Sin » Conviction of, results of » Consequences of parents' sins upon children
Transgression » Sin, definition of » Consequences of parents' sins upon children
Heredity » General references to
Judgments » Inflicted upon » Posterity of sinners
Parents » Curses entailed
Parents » Sins of, visited on their children
Parent's sins » Visited upon children » General references to
Punishment » Entailed » Upon children
Sin » Conviction of, results of » Consequences of parents' sins upon children
Transgression » Sin, definition of » Consequences of parents' sins upon children
Lamentations 5:8 (show verse)
Slaves rule over us, and no one delivers us from their control.
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Lamentations 5:9 (show verse)
We risk our lives to obtain our food, facing death in the desert.
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Lamentations 5:10 (show verse)
Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine.
Lamentations 5:11 (show verse)
They have raped women in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12 (show verse)
Princes they have hung by their hands; elders they have disrespected.
Lamentations 5:13 (show verse)
Our young men must grind grain with a millstone; our youths stumble under the weight of wood.
Lamentations 5:14 (show verse)
Our elders have ceased ruling at the gate; our young men have abandoned their music.
Lamentations 5:15 (show verse)
The joy of our hearts has ceased, and our dancing has turned into dirges.
Lamentations 5:16 (show verse)
The crown has fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned!
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Lamentations 5:17 (show verse)
This is why our hearts faint, and why our eyes grow dim:
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Lamentations 5:18 (show verse)
Because Mount Zion is desolate; foxes roam around it.
Lamentations 5:19 (show verse)
You, LORD, are forever your throne endures from generation to generation.
Lamentations 5:20 (show verse)
So why have you completely forgotten us, forsaking us for so long?
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Lamentations 5:21 (show verse)
Restore us to yourself, LORD, so that we may return. Renew our days as before,
Lamentations 5:22 (show verse)
unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us without limit.
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