Lamentations

Lamentations 5 ©

A pitiful complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.

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aREMEMBER, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

a ch. 2.15; 3.61. Ps. 44.14-16; 79.4; 74.1-4,18-23; 89.50,51; 123.3,4. Ne. 1.3; 4.4.
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Our inheritance is bturned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

b Ps. 79.1,2. De. 28.30-52. Ps. 44.11,12. Is. 63.10. Je. 10.25.
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We are corphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

c Ps. 142.4. Ho. 14.3.
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dWe have drunken our water for money; our wood 1is sold unto us.

d Le. 26.26. De. 28.48. Eze. 4.16,11. Is. 3.1.
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2Our necks are under persecution: ewe labour, and have no rest.

e Ne. 9.36,37.
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We fhave given the ghand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

f 1Ch. 29.24.
g Is. 30.1-6; 31.1-3; 57.9. Eze. 17.18. Je. 2.18,36. Ho. 7.11; 9.3; 12.1.
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hOur fathers have sinned, and iare not; and we have borne their iniquities.

h Je. 31.29. Eze. 18.2. Mat. 23.32,35,36. Ex. 20.5. Le. 26.39.
i Ge. 42.13. Ps. 39.13.
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jServants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

j Ne. 2.10,19; 5.15. De. 28.43,48. Pr. 30.22. Is. 19.4.
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We *gat our bread kwith the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

k 2Sa. 23.17. De. 28.52.
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lOur skin was black like an oven because of the 3terrible famine.

l Job 30.30. Ps. 119.83. ch. 4.8.
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mThey ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

m Is. 13.16. Zec. 14.2. De. 28.30,41; 22.25.
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nPrinces are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

n ch. 4.16; 2.10. Je. 52.10,24-27. Is. 47.6.
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oThey took pthe young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

o Ju. 16.21. Ex. 11.5. Is. 47.2. Mat. 24.41.
p Is. 16.10; 24.8-11. Je. 7.34; 16.9; 25.10. Re. 18.22,23.
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qThe elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

q 2Ki. 25.18-21. ch. 4.16; 1.4; 2.9,10,21. Is. 16.10; 24.8-11. Je. 7.34; 16.9; 25.10. Re. 18.22,23.
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The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

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4The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, rthat we have sinned!

r ch. 1.8; 4.13. Je. 2.19; 4.18. Is. 3.9,11.
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sFor this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

s ch. 1.22; 2.11; 3.48-50. Je. 9.1,20,21.
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tBecause of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

t Je. 17.3,12; 52.13. Mi. 3.12. Eze. 7.20-22; 24.21. 1Ki. 9.7,8.
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Thou, O LORD, uremainest for ever; vthy throne from generation to generation.

u Hab. 1.12. Ps. 9.7; 29.10; 10.16; 102.12,28; 145.13; 146.10.
v Ps. 45.6.
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wWherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us 5so long time?

w Ps. 10.1; 13.1; 44.24.
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Turn thou us xunto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

x Je. 31.18; 32.39,40; 33.11. Ps. 80.3,7,19. Hab. 3.2.
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6But thou hast yutterly rejected us; thou art very *wroth against us.

y Ps. 60.1; 44.9; 79.5; 89.39-46. Je. 15.1-4. De. 32.22-27. Ho. 1.6.