1898 Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
Lamentations 5
A pitiful complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.
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5:1 ¶
Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
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5:2
Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
![Online Bible Verse Lamentations 5:3 YLT 1898 Young's Literal Translation](http://chatbible.com/_/r1.gif)
5:3
Orphans we have beenwithout a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
![Online Bible Verse Lamentations 5:4 YLT 1898 Young's Literal Translation](http://chatbible.com/_/r1.gif)
5:4
Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
![Online Bible Verse Lamentations 5:5 YLT 1898 Young's Literal Translation](http://chatbible.com/_/r1.gif)
5:5
For our neck we have been pursued, We have labouredthere hath been no rest for us.
![Online Bible Verse Lamentations 5:6 YLT 1898 Young's Literal Translation](http://chatbible.com/_/r1.gif)
5:6
[To] Egypt we have given a hand, [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
![Online Bible Verse Lamentations 5:7 YLT 1898 Young's Literal Translation](http://chatbible.com/_/r1.gif)
5:7
Our fathers have sinnedthey are not, We their iniquities have borne.
![Online Bible Verse Lamentations 5:8 YLT 1898 Young's Literal Translation](http://chatbible.com/_/r1.gif)
5:8
Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
![Online Bible Verse Lamentations 5:9 YLT 1898 Young's Literal Translation](http://chatbible.com/_/r1.gif)
5:9
With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
![Online Bible Verse Lamentations 5:10 YLT 1898 Young's Literal Translation](http://chatbible.com/_/r1.gif)
5:10
Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
![Online Bible Verse Lamentations 5:11 YLT 1898 Young's Literal Translation](http://chatbible.com/_/r1.gif)
5:11
Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virginsin cities of Judah.
![Online Bible Verse Lamentations 5:12 YLT 1898 Young's Literal Translation](http://chatbible.com/_/r1.gif)
5:12
Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.
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5:13
Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.
![Online Bible Verse Lamentations 5:14 YLT 1898 Young's Literal Translation](http://chatbible.com/_/r1.gif)
5:14
The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
![Online Bible Verse Lamentations 5:15 YLT 1898 Young's Literal Translation](http://chatbible.com/_/r1.gif)
5:15
Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.
![Online Bible Verse Lamentations 5:16 YLT 1898 Young's Literal Translation](http://chatbible.com/_/r1.gif)
5:16
Fallen hath the crown [from] our head, Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
![Online Bible Verse Lamentations 5:17 YLT 1898 Young's Literal Translation](http://chatbible.com/_/r1.gif)
5:17
For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.
![Online Bible Verse Lamentations 5:18 YLT 1898 Young's Literal Translation](http://chatbible.com/_/r1.gif)
5:18
For the mount of Zionthat is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
![Online Bible Verse Lamentations 5:19 YLT 1898 Young's Literal Translation](http://chatbible.com/_/r1.gif)
5:19
Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.
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5:20
Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!
![Online Bible Verse Lamentations 5:21 YLT 1898 Young's Literal Translation](http://chatbible.com/_/r1.gif)
5:21
Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
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5:22
For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against usexceedingly?