Sermons citing Lamentations 5

^5:3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

^5:4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.

^5:5 We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.

^5:6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

^5:7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

^5:8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.

^5:9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

^5:10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

^5:11 Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

^5:12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.

^5:13 Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

^5:14 The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

^5:15 Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

^5:16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

^5:17 Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—

^5:18 because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.

^5:19 You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.

^5:20 Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?

^5:21 Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,

^5:22 unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.