La 5:1 | A pitiful complaint of Zion in prayer unto God. |
La 5:1 | ¶ Remember1, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold2 our reproach. |
La 5:2 | 3Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. |
La 5:3 | 4We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. |
La 5:4 | We have5 drunken our water for money; our wood is sold6 unto us. |
La 5:5 REST-UNREST SUFFERING FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE | Our necks are under persecution7: we labour8, and have no rest. |
La 5:6 Egypt Assyria | We have given9 the hand to the Egyptians10, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. |
La 5:7 HEREDITY SIN-SAVIOUR | Our fathers11 have sinned, and are12 not; and we have borne their iniquities. |
La 5:8 | Servants13 have ruled over us: there14 is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. |
La 5:9 | 15We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. |
La 5:10 OVENS | ¶ Our skin16 was black like an oven because of the terrible famine17. |
La 5:11 Zion | 18They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. |
La 5:12 YOUNG PEOPLE | 19Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. |
La 5:13 | They took the young20 men to grind, and the children fell21 under the wood. |
La 5:14 | The elders22 have ceased from the gate, the young23 men from their musick. |
La 5:15 ISRAEL-THE JEWS | The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance24 is turned into mourning. |
La 5:16 | The crown25 is fallen from our head26: woe unto us, that we have sinned! |
La 5:17 | ¶ For this our heart27 is faint; for these things our eyes28 are dim. |
La 5:18 DESOLATION Mount Zion | Because of the29 mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes30 walk upon it. |
La 5:19 MUTABILITY-IMMUTABILITY | Thou, O LORD, remainest31 for ever; thy throne32 from generation to generation. |
La 5:20 | ¶ Wherefore dost33 thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time34? |
La 5:21 | Turn35 thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew36 our days as of old. |
La 5:22 | But thou hast utterly rejected us;37 thou art very wroth against us. |