Parallel Bible results for "lamentations 5:6-16"

Lamentations 5:6-16

New Living Translation NLT

6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough food to survive.

7 Our ancestors sinned, but they have died— and we are suffering the punishment they deserved!

8 Slaves have now become our masters; there is no one left to rescue us.

9 We hunt for food at the risk of our lives, for violence rules the countryside.

10 The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven.

11 Our enemies rape the women in Jerusalem and the young girls in all the towns of Judah.

12 Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs, and our elders are treated with contempt.

13 Young men are led away to work at millstones, and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood.

14 The elders no longer sit in the city gates; the young men no longer dance and sing.

15 Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

16 The garlands have fallen from our heads. Weep for us because we have sinned.

New International Version NIV

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13 Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

14 The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

15 Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!