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Lamentations 5
1Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
3We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
4We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.
5Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.
8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
10Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
11They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
12Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
13The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
15The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
17For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
18For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.
19You, Yahweh, remain forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.
20Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?
21Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old.
22But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.
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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Lamentations 5:1, 16, 17, 19–22
Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace! / The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! / Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
Alliances: Ratification of by Giving the Hand Lamentations 5:6
We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
Armies: Exercised Savage Cruelties on the Vanquished Lamentations 5:11–13
Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah. / Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect. / Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
Assyria: Israelites Subject To Lamentations 5:6
We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
Backsliding: Pray to be Restored From Lamentations 5:21
Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,
Captive: Cruelty to Ravished Lamentations 5:11–13
Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah. / Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect. / Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
Conversion: Pray For Lamentations 5:21
Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,
Covenant of Men with Men by Giving the Hand Lamentations 5:6
We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
Dancing: General Scriptures Concerning Lamentations 5:15
Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
Despondency: General Scriptures Concerning Lamentations 5:22
unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Lamentations 5:20
Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
Famine: Caused: Blackness of the Skin Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
Famine: Sent As a Judgment Lamentations 5:4, 5, 10
We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price. / We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest. / Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
Fatherless: A Type of Zion in Affliction Lamentations 5:3
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
God: Eternity of Lamentations 5:19
You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
God: Sovereign Lamentations 5:19
You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
Government: Municipal: Devolving Upon a Local Senate and Executive officers Lamentations 5:14
The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
Hand: Clasping of, in Token of Contract Lamentations 5:6
We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
Judgments: Inflicted Upon: Posterity of Sinners Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
Mill: And Captives Lamentations 5:13
Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
Mills: Male Captives often Employed At Lamentations 5:13
Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
Money: Silver Used As Lamentations 5:4
We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
Nation: Prayer For Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
Orphan: A Figure of Zion in Affliction Lamentations 5:3
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
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