Parallel Bible results for "lamentations 5:2-12"

Lamentations 5:2-12

2 The land we possessed has been passed on to strangers, our homes to foreigners.

2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.

3 We have become fatherless orphans, our mothers now are widows.

3 We have become fatherless, our mothers are widows.

4 We have to pay to drink our own water; we have to buy our own wood.

4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price.

5 The yoke is on our necks; we are persecuted; we toil to exhaustion but are given no rest.

5 Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest.

6 We made pacts with Egypt and Ashur to get enough food.

6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

7 Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist; we bear the weight of their guilt.

7 Our ancestors sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.

8 We are ruled by slaves, and there is no one to save us from their power.

8 Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands.

9 We get our food at the peril of our lives because of the sword in the desert.

9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.

10 Our skins are as black as a furnace because of the searing blasts of famine.

10 Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.

11 They have raped the women of Tziyon, virgins in the cities of Y'hudah.

11 Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.

12 Princes are hung up by their hands, leaders receive no respect.

12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.