{"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/kjv/lamentations/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T23:38:42.252Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","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 strangers, our houses to aliens."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers <i>are</i> as widows."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Our necks <i>are</i> under persecution: we labour, <i>and</i> have no rest."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"We have given the hand <i>to</i> the Egyptians, <i>and to</i> the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Our fathers have sinned, <i>and are</i> not; and we have borne their iniquities."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Servants have ruled over us: <i>there is</i> none that doth deliver <i>us</i> out of their hand."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"We gat our bread with <i>the peril of</i> 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, <i>and</i> the maids in the cities of Judah."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured."},{"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 musick."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"The crown is fallen <i>from</i> our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For this our heart is faint; for these <i>things</i> our eyes are dim."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, <i>and</i> 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 (KJV)","markdown":"[Lamentations 5](https://primebible.com/kjv/lamentations/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/lamentations/5 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}