{"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/dbt/lamentations/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T02:53:09.174Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","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; consider, and see 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":"Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Our fathers have sinned, and they are not; and we bear their iniquities."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have 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 hath 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 have grown dim,"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?"}],"citation":{"inline":"Lamentations 5 (DBT)","markdown":"[Lamentations 5](https://primebible.com/dbt/lamentations/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/lamentations/5 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}