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Lamentations Chapter 5

Lamentations
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Lamentations

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The people of Jerusalem weep and lament as their city is destroyed and the king's son is taken away. They cry out to God for his wrath and for the loss of their beloved. Yet they also recall the promise of God's mercy and the hope of a future restoration.

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(1) Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
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Lamentations 1:20Lamentations 2:20Lamentations 3:19Nehemiah 1:8Job 7:7Job 10:9Jeremiah 15:15Habakkuk 3:2Luke 23:42Lamentations 2:15Lamentations 3:61Nehemiah 1:3

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Leviticus 26:42Psalms 89:50

(3) We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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Exodus 22:24Jeremiah 18:21Hosea 14:3

(4) We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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Deuteronomy 28:48Isaiah 3:1Ezekiel 4:9Ezekiel 4:10Ezekiel 4:11Ezekiel 4:12Ezekiel 4:13Ezekiel 4:14Ezekiel 4:15Ezekiel 4:16Ezekiel 4:17

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II Kings 12:4I Kings 18:33

(5) Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
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Lamentations 1:14Lamentations 4:19Deuteronomy 28:48Deuteronomy 28:65Deuteronomy 28:66Jeremiah 27:2Jeremiah 27:8Jeremiah 27:11Jeremiah 27:12Jeremiah 28:14Matthew 11:29Acts 15:10

(6) We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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Genesis 24:2II Kings 10:15Jeremiah 50:15Ezekiel 17:18Isaiah 30:1Isaiah 30:2Isaiah 30:3Isaiah 30:4Isaiah 30:5Isaiah 30:6Isaiah 31:1Isaiah 31:2

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Genesis 43:32

(7) Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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Exodus 20:5Jeremiah 16:12Jeremiah 31:29Ezekiel 18:2Matthew 23:32Matthew 23:33Matthew 23:34Matthew 23:35Matthew 23:36Genesis 42:13Genesis 42:36Job 7:8

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Jeremiah 33:8

(8) Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
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Genesis 9:25Deuteronomy 28:43Nehemiah 2:19Nehemiah 5:15Proverbs 30:22Job 5:4Job 10:7Psalms 7:2Psalms 50:22Isaiah 43:13Hosea 2:10Zechariah 11:6

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II Corinthians 1:10

(9) We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
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Judges 6:11II Samuel 23:17Jeremiah 40:9Jeremiah 40:10Jeremiah 40:11Jeremiah 40:12Jeremiah 41:1Jeremiah 41:2Jeremiah 41:3Jeremiah 41:4Jeremiah 41:5Jeremiah 41:6

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II Samuel 19:5

(10) Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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Lamentations 3:4Lamentations 4:8Job 30:30Psalms 119:83

(11) They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
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Deuteronomy 28:30Isaiah 13:16Zechariah 14:2

(12) Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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Lamentations 2:10Lamentations 2:20Lamentations 4:16Isaiah 47:6Jeremiah 39:6Jeremiah 39:7Jeremiah 52:10Jeremiah 52:11Jeremiah 52:25Jeremiah 52:26Jeremiah 52:27

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Psalms 68:27

(13) They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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Exodus 11:5Judges 16:21Job 31:10Isaiah 47:2Exodus 1:11Exodus 2:11Exodus 23:5Nehemiah 5:1Nehemiah 5:2Nehemiah 5:3Nehemiah 5:4Nehemiah 5:5

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Judges 5:27Deuteronomy 22:6I Kings 18:33

(14) The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
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Lamentations 1:4Lamentations 1:19Lamentations 2:10Deuteronomy 16:18Job 29:7Job 29:8Job 29:9Job 29:10Job 29:11Job 29:12Job 29:13Job 29:14

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 46:2Deuteronomy 22:6Ezekiel 40:6

(15) The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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Psalms 30:11Amos 6:4Amos 6:5Amos 6:6Amos 6:7Amos 8:10James 4:9James 4:10

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Esther 9:22James 4:9Isaiah 51:11Jeremiah 31:13Isaiah 9:3

(16) The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
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Lamentations 1:1Job 19:9Psalms 89:39Jeremiah 13:18Ezekiel 21:26Revelation 2:10Revelation 3:11Lamentations 1:8Lamentations 1:18Lamentations 2:1Lamentations 4:13Proverbs 14:34

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Revelation 8:13

(17) For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
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Lamentations 1:13Lamentations 1:22Leviticus 26:36Isaiah 1:5Jeremiah 8:18Jeremiah 46:5Ezekiel 21:7Ezekiel 21:15Micah 6:13Lamentations 2:11Deuteronomy 28:65Job 17:7

(18) Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
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Lamentations 2:8Lamentations 2:9I Kings 9:7I Kings 9:8Psalms 74:2Psalms 74:3Jeremiah 17:3Jeremiah 26:9Jeremiah 52:13Micah 3:12Isaiah 32:13Isaiah 32:14

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Isaiah 2:3Micah 4:2Zechariah 8:3Jeremiah 12:11Ezekiel 29:12

(19) Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
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Deuteronomy 33:27Psalms 9:7Psalms 10:16Psalms 29:10Psalms 90:2Psalms 102:12Psalms 102:25Psalms 102:26Psalms 102:27Habakkuk 1:12I Timothy 1:17I Timothy 6:15

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Exodus 17:16Judges 2:10Psalms 78:8Ecclesiastes 1:4Isaiah 13:20Isaiah 34:10

(20) Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
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Psalms 13:1Psalms 44:24Psalms 74:1Psalms 77:7Psalms 77:8Psalms 77:9Psalms 77:10Psalms 79:5Psalms 85:5Psalms 89:46Psalms 94:3Psalms 94:4

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Psalms 13:1Isaiah 49:15

(21) Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
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I Kings 18:37Psalms 80:3Psalms 80:7Psalms 80:19Psalms 85:4Jeremiah 31:18Jeremiah 32:39Jeremiah 32:40Ezekiel 11:19Ezekiel 11:20Ezekiel 36:25Ezekiel 36:26

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Judges 4:18Ezekiel 33:11

(22) But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
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Psalms 44:9Psalms 60:1Psalms 60:2Jeremiah 15:1Jeremiah 15:2Jeremiah 15:3Jeremiah 15:4Jeremiah 15:5Ezekiel 37:11Hosea 1:6

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