{"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/ylt/lamentations/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T22:55:50.998Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","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 hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Orphans we have been — without a father, our mothers are as widows."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured — there hath been no rest for us."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"To Egypt we have given a hand, To Asshur, to be satisfied with bread."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Our fathers have sinned — they are not, We their iniquities have borne."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins — in cities of Judah."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Fallen hath the crown from our head, Woe is now to us, for we have sinned."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For the mount of Zion — that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us — exceedingly?"}],"citation":{"inline":"Lamentations 5 (YLT)","markdown":"[Lamentations 5](https://primebible.com/ylt/lamentations/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/lamentations/5 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}