Lamentations 5
- 1Remember, O Lord, what has come on us: consider, and look at our disgrace.
- 2Our inheritance is handed over to outsiders, our houses to foreigners.
- 3We are orphans with no father, our mothers are as widows.
- 4We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us.
- 5Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
- 6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
- 7Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have borne their wrongdoings.
- 8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.
- 9We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
- 10Our skin was black like an oven because of the raging famine.
- 11They raped the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
- 12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
- 13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
- 14The elders have left the gate, the young men from their music.
- 15The joy of our heart has gone. Our dance is turned into mourning.
- 16The crown has fallen from our head: how miserable we are, that we have sinned!
- 17For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim.
- 18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is ruined, the foxes walk on it.
- 19You, O Lord, remain for ever. Your throne from generation to generation.
- 20Therefore do you forget us for ever, and abandon us so long time?
- 21Turn us to you, O Lord, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old.
- 22But you have completely rejected us. You are very angry against us.
What changed from the KJV
GIGAKJV is a modern English revision of the King James Version. The comparison below uses the project's KJV text in the later 1769 tradition and marks, word by word, each verse of Lamentations 5 where the wording differs: struck-through words are the KJV's, highlighted words are GIGAKJV's.
KJVRemember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
GIGAKJVRemember, O Lord, what has come on us: consider, and look at our disgrace.
KJVOur inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
GIGAKJVOur inheritance is handed over to outsiders, our houses to foreigners.
KJVWe are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
GIGAKJVWe are orphans with no father, our mothers are as widows.
KJVWe have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
GIGAKJVWe have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us.
KJVOur necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
GIGAKJVOur necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
KJVOur fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
GIGAKJVOur fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have borne their wrongdoings.
KJVServants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
GIGAKJVServants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.
KJVWe gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
GIGAKJVWe got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
KJVOur skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
GIGAKJVOur skin was black like an oven because of the raging famine.
KJVThey ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
GIGAKJVThey raped the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
KJVPrinces are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
GIGAKJVPrinces are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
KJVThe elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
GIGAKJVThe elders have left the gate, the young men from their music.
KJVThe joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
GIGAKJVThe joy of our heart has gone. Our dance is turned into mourning.
KJVThe crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
GIGAKJVThe crown has fallen from our head: how miserable we are, that we have sinned!
KJVFor this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
GIGAKJVFor this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim.
KJVBecause of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
GIGAKJVBecause of the mountain of Zion, which is ruined, the foxes walk on it.
KJVThou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
GIGAKJVYou, O Lord, remain for ever. Your throne from generation to generation.
KJVWherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
GIGAKJVTherefore do you forget us for ever, and abandon us so long time?
KJVTurn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
GIGAKJVTurn us to you, O Lord, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old.
KJVBut thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
GIGAKJVBut you have completely rejected us. You are very angry against us.
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