Thematic Bible
Lamentations 5:1 (show verse)
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
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)
Servants rule over us;
There is no one to rescue us out of their hand.
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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.