{"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/erv/lamentations/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:22:06.457Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","book":"Lamentations","bookSlug":"lamentations","chapter":5,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":null,"totalChapters":5,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Remember, O what is LORD, 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 have 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 with 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 maidens 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 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 LORD, 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 LORD, 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 (ERV)","markdown":"[Lamentations 5](https://primebible.com/erv/lamentations/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/lamentations/5 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}