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Lamentations Outline

      • People’s prayer for restoration

        • ‘Remember what has befallen us’ (1)

        • ‘Woe to us; we have sinned’ (16)

        • ‘Bring us back, O Jehovah’ (21)

        • “Renew our days” (21)

Lamentations 5:1

Marginal References

  • +Ps 79:4; La 2:15

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    6/1/2007, p. 10

  • Publications Index

    w07 6/1 10

Lamentations 5:2

Marginal References

  • +De 28:30; Ps 79:1; Jer 6:12; Zep 1:13

Lamentations 5:3

Marginal References

  • +Ex 22:24; Jer 18:21

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    w32 85

Lamentations 5:4

Marginal References

  • +De 28:15, 48; Isa 3:1; Eze 4:11, 16

Lamentations 5:5

Marginal References

  • +De 28:65

Lamentations 5:6

Marginal References

  • +Isa 30:2; Jer 44:12; Eze 17:17, 18
  • +2Ch 28:16; Jer 2:18, 36

Lamentations 5:7

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    6/1/2007, p. 11

    9/1/1988, p. 27

  • Publications Index

    w07 6/1 11; w88 9/1 27

Lamentations 5:9

Footnotes

  • *

    Or “soul.”

Marginal References

  • +Eze 4:10

Lamentations 5:10

Marginal References

  • +2Ki 25:3; La 4:8

Lamentations 5:11

Footnotes

  • *

    Or “raped.”

Marginal References

  • +De 28:30

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 169-171

  • Publications Index

    kj 170

Lamentations 5:12

Marginal References

  • +Jer 39:6
  • +Isa 47:6; Jer 6:11; La 4:16

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 169-171

  • Publications Index

    kj 170

Lamentations 5:13

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 169-171

  • Publications Index

    kj 170

Lamentations 5:14

Marginal References

  • +Jos 20:4
  • +Jer 25:10

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 169-171

  • Publications Index

    kj 170

Lamentations 5:15

Marginal References

  • +Am 8:10

Lamentations 5:17

Marginal References

  • +La 1:22
  • +De 28:65

Lamentations 5:18

Marginal References

  • +Jer 26:18

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    12/1/1964, pp. 734-736

  • Publications Index

    w64 735; bf 169

Lamentations 5:19

Marginal References

  • +Ps 102:12; 145:13; 146:10

Lamentations 5:20

Marginal References

  • +Ps 79:5; Jer 14:19

Lamentations 5:21

Marginal References

  • +De 4:30; Ps 80:3; 85:4; Jer 31:18
  • +Jer 33:13

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    “All Scripture,” p. 132

  • Publications Index

    si 132

Lamentations 5:22

Marginal References

  • +De 28:15

Parallel Translations

Click a verse number to display parallel Bible verses.

General

Lam. 5:1Ps 79:4; La 2:15
Lam. 5:2De 28:30; Ps 79:1; Jer 6:12; Zep 1:13
Lam. 5:3Ex 22:24; Jer 18:21
Lam. 5:4De 28:15, 48; Isa 3:1; Eze 4:11, 16
Lam. 5:5De 28:65
Lam. 5:6Isa 30:2; Jer 44:12; Eze 17:17, 18
Lam. 5:62Ch 28:16; Jer 2:18, 36
Lam. 5:9Eze 4:10
Lam. 5:102Ki 25:3; La 4:8
Lam. 5:11De 28:30
Lam. 5:12Jer 39:6
Lam. 5:12Isa 47:6; Jer 6:11; La 4:16
Lam. 5:14Jos 20:4
Lam. 5:14Jer 25:10
Lam. 5:15Am 8:10
Lam. 5:17La 1:22
Lam. 5:17De 28:65
Lam. 5:18Jer 26:18
Lam. 5:19Ps 102:12; 145:13; 146:10
Lam. 5:20Ps 79:5; Jer 14:19
Lam. 5:21De 4:30; Ps 80:3; 85:4; Jer 31:18
Lam. 5:21Jer 33:13
Lam. 5:22De 28:15
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New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
Lamentations 5:1-22

Lamentations

5 Remember, O Jehovah, what has befallen us.

Look and see our disgrace.+

 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.+

 3 We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.+

 4 We must pay to drink our own water,+ and our own wood comes at a price.

 5 Those pursuing us are at our neck;

We are weary, but we are given no rest.+

 6 We hold out our hand to Egypt+ and to As·syrʹi·a,+ to get enough bread to eat.

 7 Our forefathers who sinned are no more, but we must bear their errors.

 8 Servants now rule over us; there is no one to snatch us from their hand.

 9 We bring in our bread at the risk of our life,*+ because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin has become as hot as a furnace, because of the pangs of hunger.+

11 The wives in Zion they have humiliated,* the virgins in the cities of Judah.+

12 Princes were hanged by their hand,+ and elders were shown no respect.+

13 Young men carry the hand mill, and boys stumble under loads of wood.

14 The elders are gone from the city gate;+ young men do not play their music.+

15 The joy is gone from our heart; our dancing has turned into mourning.+

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

17 Because of this our heart is sick,+

And because of these things our eyes have grown dim,+

18 Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate;+ foxes now roam on it.

19 As for you, O Jehovah, you sit enthroned forever.

Your throne is for generation after generation.+

20 Why do you forget us forever and abandon us for so long a time?+

21 Bring us back to yourself, O Jehovah, and we will readily return to you.+

Renew our days as in those of old.+

22 However, you have utterly rejected us.

You remain intensely angry with us.+

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