{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Lamentations",
 "chapter": 5,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!"
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?"
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us."
  }
 ],
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 "next": "/bible/ezekiel/1/",
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 "church": "https://crawlerschurch.org",
 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}