📖 Lamentations — Chapter 5 (KJV)
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Scripture source: Project Gutenberg KJV, ebook 10.
Lamentations 5:1 RRemember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Lamentations 5:2 ROur inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lamentations 5:3 RWe are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Lamentations 5:4 We Rhave drunken our water for money; our wood Tis sold unto us.
Lamentations 5:5 RTOur necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Lamentations 5:6 We have Rgiven the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations 5:7 Our Rfathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Lamentations 5:8 RServants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Lamentations 5:9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Lamentations 5:10 Our Rskin was black like an oven because of the Tterrible famine.
Lamentations 5:11 RThey ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Lamentations 5:13 They took Rthe young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Lamentations 5:14 The Relders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
Lamentations 5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Rour dance is turned into mourning.
Lamentations 5:16 RTThe crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Lamentations 5:17 For this Rour heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Lamentations 5:18 Because Rof the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Lamentations 5:19 Thou, O LORD, Rremainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
Lamentations 5:20 Wherefore Rdost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us Tso long time?
Lamentations 5:21 RTurn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Lamentations 5:22 RTBut thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
📚 Study This Chapter
📖 What We’re Reading
Lamentations 5:1–8 — Remember our reproach
🌱 What These Verses Teach Us
The communal prayer asks the Lord to look at lost homes, fatherlessness, costly necessities, hard labor, and foreign dependence. It names inherited burdens and the absence of a deliverer.
Key Truth: Let prayer describe real needs plainly.
Check What You Remember
1. Complete the KJV wording: “____ , O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and …” (Lamentations 5:1)
Find it in Lamentations 5:1 (KJV).
2. Complete the KJV wording: “Our ____ are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.” (Lamentations 5:5)
Find it in Lamentations 5:5 (KJV).
3. Complete the KJV wording: “____ have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver …” (Lamentations 5:8)
Find it in Lamentations 5:8 (KJV).
📖 What We’re Reading
Lamentations 5:9–15 — Ordinary joy has become mourning
🌱 What These Verses Teach Us
Danger in seeking bread, famine, violence against women, abuse of leaders, and forced labor are named. Elders leave the gate, music ceases, and the community’s dance becomes grief.
Key Truth: Give voice to losses others may overlook.
Check What You Remember
1. Complete the KJV wording: “We gat our ____ with the peril of our lives because of the sword …” (Lamentations 5:9)
Find it in Lamentations 5:9 (KJV).
2. Complete the KJV wording: “____ are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders …” (Lamentations 5:12)
Find it in Lamentations 5:12 (KJV).
3. Complete the KJV wording: “The ____ of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into …” (Lamentations 5:15)
Find it in Lamentations 5:15 (KJV).
📖 What We’re Reading
Lamentations 5:16–22 — The enduring throne and a plea for renewal
🌱 What These Verses Teach Us
The fallen crown is joined to confessed sin and desolate Zion. The prayer acknowledges God’s eternal reign and asks to be turned back and renewed, ending with the unresolved anguish of rejection and wrath.
Key Truth: Seek renewal without forcing grief into an easy ending.
Check What You Remember
1. Complete the KJV wording: “The ____ is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we …” (Lamentations 5:16)
Find it in Lamentations 5:16 (KJV).
2. Complete the KJV wording: “Thou, O ____ , remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.” (Lamentations 5:19)
Find it in Lamentations 5:19 (KJV).
3. Complete the KJV wording: “But thou hast ____ rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.” (Lamentations 5:22)
Find it in Lamentations 5:22 (KJV).
Related Scripture (KJV)
Psalms 80:3 — The psalm repeatedly asks God to turn his people again.
This related passage is selected for its connection with this chapter. It is separate from the chapter text.
Reflect and Apply
What would an honest prayer for renewal name in your community?
Advanced Questions and Answers
Study this chapter’s wording, patterns, contrasts, and meaning in greater depth.
1. Which summary best distinguishes Lamentations 5:1–8 (Remember our reproach) from the chapter’s other sections?
2. Which summary best distinguishes Lamentations 5:9–15 (Ordinary joy has become mourning) from the chapter’s other sections?
3. Which summary best distinguishes Lamentations 5:16–22 (The enduring throne and a plea for renewal) from the chapter’s other sections?
4. What contrast remains after the community’s losses?
5. How does the plea for renewal express dependence?
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