{"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/drb/lamentations/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T23:29:14.910Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","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 upon us: consider and behold our reproach. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might 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 was none to redeem us out of their hand. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim, "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time? "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us."}],"citation":{"inline":"Lamentations 5 (DRB)","markdown":"[Lamentations 5](https://primebible.com/drb/lamentations/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/lamentations/5 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}