{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/lamentations/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T02:39:32.195Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Lamentations","bookSlug":"lamentations","chapter":5,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":null,"totalChapters":5,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Remember, O LORD, what is come on us: consider, and behold our reproach."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk on it."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"You, O LORD, remain for ever; your throne from generation to generation."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Why do you forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Turn you us to you, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But you have utterly rejected us; you are very wroth against us."}],"citation":{"inline":"Lamentations 5 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Lamentations 5](https://primebible.com/akjv/lamentations/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/lamentations/5 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}