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Lamentations 5

22 aligned verses; 22 with wording or punctuation differences .

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Verse BSB Berean Standard Bible YLT Young's Literal Translation
Remember, O LORD , what has happened to us . Look and see our disgrace!
Remember, O Jehovah , what hath befallen us , Look attentively, and see our reproach.
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers ` are ' as widows.
We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come .
We are closely pursued ; we are weary and find no rest.
For our neck we have been pursued , We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us .
We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
` To ' Egypt we have given a hand, ` To ' Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
Our fathers sinned and are no more , but we bear their punishment .
Our fathers have sinned -- they are not , We their iniquities have borne .
Slaves rule over us ; there is no one to deliver us from their hands .
Servants have ruled over us , A deliverer there is none from their hand .
We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
With our lives we bring in our bread , Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger .
Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine .
Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
Wives in Zion they have humbled , Virgins -- in cities of Judah.
Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect .
Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured .
Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled .
The elders have left the city gate ; the young men have stopped their music .
The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song .
Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing .
The crown has fallen from our head . Woe to us, for we have sinned !
Fallen hath the crown ` from ' our head , Wo `is' now to us, for we have sinned .
Because of this , our hearts are faint; because of these , our eyes grow dim
For this hath our heart been sick , For these have our eyes been dim .
because of Mount Zion , which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it .
You , O LORD , reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
Thou , O Jehovah , to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation .
Why have You forgotten us forever ? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!
Restore us to Yourself , O LORD , so we may return; renew our days as of old ,
Turn us back , O Jehovah , unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old .
unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
For hast Thou utterly rejected us ? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly?

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