New American Standard Bible 1995

Lamentations 5:8-16

8 1Slaves rule over us; There is 2no one to deliver us from their hand.9We get our bread 3at the 4risk of our lives 5Because of the sword in the wilderness.10Our skin has become as 6hot as an oven, Because of 7the burning heat of famine.11They ravished the 8women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.12Princes were hung by their hands; 9 10Elders were not respected.13Young men 11 12worked at the grinding mill, And youths 13stumbled under loads of wood.14Elders 14are gone from the gate, Young men from their 15music.15The joy of our hearts has 16ceased; Our dancing has been turned into mourning.16The 17crown has fallen from our head; 18Woe to us, for we have sinned!

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Notes

1. Lamentations 5:8 Neh 5:15 ↩
2. Lamentations 5:8 Ps 7:2; Zech 11:6 ↩
3. Lamentations 5:9 Lit with our soul ↩
4. Lamentations 5:9 Jer 40:9-12 ↩
5. Lamentations 5:9 Or In the face of ↩
6. Lamentations 5:10 Job 30:30; Lam 4:8 ↩
7. Lamentations 5:10 Or the ravages of hunger ↩
8. Lamentations 5:11 Is 13:16; Zech 14:2 ↩
9. Lamentations 5:12 Lit The faces of elders ↩
10. Lamentations 5:12 Is 47:6; Lam 4:16 ↩
11. Lamentations 5:13 Lit carry ↩
12. Lamentations 5:13 Judg 16:21 ↩
13. Lamentations 5:13 Jer 7:18 ↩
14. Lamentations 5:14 Lit have ceased ↩
15. Lamentations 5:14 Is 24:8; Jer 7:34 ↩
16. Lamentations 5:15 Jer 25:10; Amos 8:10 ↩
17. Lamentations 5:16 Job 19:9; Ps 89:39; Jer 13:18 ↩
18. Lamentations 5:16 Is 3:9-11 ↩

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