Parallel Bible results for "lamentations 5:7-17"

Lamentations 5:7-17

7 Our ancestors sinned. Now they are gone, [but] we have to take the punishment for their wickedness.

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

8 Slaves rule us. There is no one to rescue us from them.

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

9 To get our food, we have to risk our lives in the heat of the desert.

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

10 Our skin is as hot as an oven from the burning heat of starvation.

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

11 Women in Zion are raped, so are the girls in the cities of Judah.

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

12 [Our] leaders are hung by their hands. [Our] older leaders are shown no respect.

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

13 [Our] young men work at the mill, and [our] boys stagger under loads of wood.

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

14 [Our] older leaders have stopped meeting at the city gate, and [our] young men no longer play their music.

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

15 There is no joy left in our hearts. Our dancing has turned into mourning.

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

16 The crown has fallen from our head. Because we have sinned, it has been disastrous for us.

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

17 This is why we feel sick. This is why our eyes see less and less.

17 Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim