Lamentations 5

1Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.Cross-references: Neh 1:3 · Neh 1:8 · Neh 4:4 · Job 7:7 · Job 10:9 · Ps 44:13 · +13 more

2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.Cross-references: Deut 28:30 · Ps 79:1 · Isa 1:7 · Isa 5:17 · Isa 63:18 · Jer 6:12 · +3 more

3We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.Cross-references: Ex 22:24 · Jer 15:8 · Jer 18:21 · Hos 14:3

4We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.Cross-references: Deut 28:48 · Isa 3:1 · Ezek 4:9

5Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.Cross-references: Deut 28:48 · Deut 28:65 · Neh 9:36 · Jer 27:2 · Jer 27:8 · Jer 27:11 · +5 more

6We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.Cross-references: Gen 24:2 · 2Ki 10:15 · Isa 30:1 · Isa 31:1 · Isa 57:9 · Jer 2:18 · +8 more

7Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.Cross-references: Gen 42:13 · Gen 42:36 · Ex 20:5 · Job 7:8 · Job 7:21 · Jer 14:20 · +6 more

8Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.Cross-references: Gen 9:25 · Deut 28:43 · Neh 2:19 · Neh 5:15 · Job 5:4 · Job 10:7 · +6 more

9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.Cross-references: Judg 6:11 · 2Sam 23:17 · Jer 40:9 · Jer 41:1 · Jer 41:18 · Jer 42:14 · +3 more

10Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.Cross-references: Job 30:30 · Ps 119:83 · Lam 3:4 · Lam 4:8

11They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.Cross-references: Deut 28:30 · Isa 13:16 · Zech 14:2

12Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.Cross-references: Isa 47:6 · Jer 39:6 · Jer 52:10 · Jer 52:25 · Lam 2:10 · Lam 2:20 · +1 more

13The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.Cross-references: Ex 1:11 · Ex 2:11 · Ex 11:5 · Ex 23:5 · Judg 16:21 · Neh 5:1 · +4 more

14The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.Cross-references: Deut 16:18 · Job 29:7 · Job 30:1 · Job 30:31 · Isa 3:2 · Isa 24:7 · +8 more

15The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.Cross-references: Ps 30:11 · Jer 25:10 · Amos 6:4 · Amos 8:10 · James 4:9

16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!Cross-references: Job 19:9 · Ps 89:39 · Prov 14:34 · Isa 3:9 · Jer 2:17 · Jer 2:19 · +13 more

17For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:Cross-references: Lev 26:36 · Deut 28:65 · Job 17:7 · Ps 6:7 · Ps 31:9 · Ps 69:3 · +10 more

18for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.Cross-references: 1Ki 9:7 · Ps 74:2 · Isa 32:13 · Jer 9:11 · Jer 17:3 · Jer 26:9 · +3 more

19You, Yahweh, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.Cross-references: Deut 33:27 · Ps 9:7 · Ps 10:16 · Ps 29:10 · Ps 45:6 · Ps 90:2 · +15 more

20Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?Cross-references: Ps 13:1 · Ps 44:24 · Ps 74:1 · Ps 77:7 · Ps 79:5 · Ps 85:5 · +4 more

21Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:37 · Ps 80:3 · Ps 80:7 · Ps 80:19 · Ps 85:4 · Jer 31:4 · +11 more

22But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.Cross-references: Ps 44:9 · Ps 60:1 · Isa 64:9 · Jer 15:1 · Ezek 37:11 · Hos 1:6