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

Lamentations 5:7-17

7 Our fathers sinned, are not: we have borne their iniquities.

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

8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom out of their hand.

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

9 We shall bring in our bread with our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

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

10 Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.

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

11 They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.

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

12 Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured.

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

13 The chosen men lifted up weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.

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

14 And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.

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

15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

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

16 The crown has fallen our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.

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

17 For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.

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

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