Lamentations 5:5

Old Testament Poetry ASV (1901)

Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

Lamentations 5:5 — American Standard Version

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Context — Lamentations 5

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.

2Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.

3We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

4We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

5Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

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