{"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/asv/lamentations/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T04:53:28.146Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ASV","book":"Lamentations","bookSlug":"lamentations","chapter":5,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":null,"totalChapters":5,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto 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 unto us."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, 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 sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled 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 unto us! for we have sinned."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us."}],"citation":{"inline":"Lamentations 5 (ASV)","markdown":"[Lamentations 5](https://primebible.com/asv/lamentations/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ASV. https://primebible.com/asv/lamentations/5 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}