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Lamentations 5

A Prayer for Mercy

Lamentations 5:1

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

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Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

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Lamentations 5:3

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Breakdown

We are orphans Israel's father, Yahawah, turned his back on them (Hosea 1:8-9). However, Israel was adopted back into the fold through Yahawashi (Romans 9:4).

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Lamentations 5:4

We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

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Lamentations 5:5

Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

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Lamentations 5:6

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

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Lamentations 5:7

Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

Reincarnation

2 Samuel 7:14 Job 14:14 Job 19:26 Psalms 110:1 Ecclesiastes 3:16 Ecclesiastes 6:10 Daniel 12:13 Malachi 4:5 2 Maccabees 7:23 2 Esdras 14:35 2 Esdras 16:17-17 Matthew 1:1 Matthew 11:14 Matthew 12:42 Matthew 16:14 Matthew 17:10 Matthew 19:28 Matthew 22:42 Matthew 24:34 Luke 3:38 John 9:2 1 Corinthians 14:32 Revelation 1:7 Revelation 10:11

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Lamentations 5:8

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

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Lamentations 5:9

We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

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Lamentations 5:10

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

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Lamentations 5:11

They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

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Lamentations 5:12

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

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Lamentations 5:13

They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

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Lamentations 5:14

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

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Lamentations 5:15

The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

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Lamentations 5:16

The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

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Lamentations 5:17

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

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Lamentations 5:18

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

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Lamentations 5:19

Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

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Lamentations 5:20

Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

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Lamentations 5:21

Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

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Lamentations 5:22

But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

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