Lamentations 5:4-14

4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price.
5 Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest.
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.

Cross References 14

  • 1. S Isaiah 55:1; Ezekiel 4:16-17
  • 2. Isaiah 3:1
  • 3. S Nehemiah 9:37; Isaiah 47:6
  • 4. S Joshua 1:13
  • 5. Jeremiah 2:36; Hosea 5:13; Hosea 7:11; Hosea 9:3
  • 6. S Jeremiah 31:29
  • 7. Jeremiah 14:20; Jeremiah 16:12
  • 8. Nehemiah 5:15
  • 9. Zechariah 11:6
  • 10. S Job 30:30; S Lamentations 4:8-9
  • 11. S Genesis 34:29; Zechariah 14:2
  • 12. S Leviticus 19:32
  • 13. S Lamentations 2:6; Lamentations 4:16
  • 14. S Isaiah 24:8; Jeremiah 7:34
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