Lamentations 4:17 (NLT) - 17 We looked in vain for our allies to come and save us, but we were looking to nations that could not help us.
THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (Lamentations Chapter 1 to 5)
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Lamentations 4:18 (NLT) - 18 We couldn’t go into the streets without danger to our lives. Our end was near; our days were numbered. We were doomed!
Lamentations 4:19 (NLT) - 19 Our enemies were swifter than eagles in flight. If we fled to the mountains, they found us. If we hid in the wilderness, they were waiting for us there.
Lamentations 4:20 (NLT) - 20 Our king—the Lord's anointed, the very life of our nation—was caught in their snares. We had thought that his shadow would protect us against any nation on earth!
Lamentations 4:21 (NLT) - 21 Are you rejoicing in the land of Uz, O people of Edom? But you, too, must drink from the cup of the Lord's anger. You, too, will be stripped naked in your drunkenness.
Lamentations 4:22 (NLT) - 22 O beautiful Jerusalem, your punishment will end; you will soon return from exile. But Edom, your punishment is just beginning; soon your many sins will be exposed.
Lamentations 5:1 (NLT) - 1 Lord, remember what has happened to us. See how we have been disgraced!
Lamentations 5:2 (NLT) - 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
Lamentations 5:8-9 (NLT) - 8 Slaves have now become our masters; there is no one left to rescue us. 9 We hunt for food at the risk of our lives, for violence rules the countryside.
Lamentations 5:10-11 (NLT) - 10 The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven. 11 Our enemies rape the women in Jerusalem and the young girls in all the towns of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12 (NLT) - 12 Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs, and our elders are treated with contempt.
Lamentations 5:13-14 (NLT)
13 Young men are led away to work at millstones, and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood. 14 The elders no longer sit in the city gates; the young men no longer dance and sing.
13 Young men are led away to work at millstones, and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood. 14 The elders no longer sit in the city gates; the young men no longer dance and sing.
Lamentations 5:15-16 (NLT) - 15 Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning. 16 The garlands have fallen from our heads. Weep for us because we have sinned.
Lamentations 5:17-18 (NLT) - 17 Our hearts are sick and weary, and our eyes grow dim with tears. 18 For Jerusalem is empty and desolate, a place haunted by jackals.
Lamentations 5:19 (NLT) - 19 But Lord, you remain the same forever! Your throne continues from generation to generation.
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