TRV
circa 605–538 BC
The Babylonian Exile
Jerusalem falls and the temple burns; Ezekiel and Daniel minister among the exiles as Lamentations mourns the city's ruin.
- Lamentations 4:16c. 588 BC
The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
- Lamentations 4:17c. 588 BC
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
- Lamentations 4:18c. 588 BC
They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
- Lamentations 4:19c. 588 BC
Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
- Lamentations 4:20c. 588 BC
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
- Lamentations 4:21c. 588 BC
¶ Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
- Lamentations 4:22c. 588 BC
The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
- Lamentations 5:1c. 588 BC
¶ Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
- Lamentations 5:2c. 588 BC
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
- Lamentations 5:3c. 588 BC
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- Lamentations 5:4c. 588 BC
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
- Lamentations 5:5c. 588 BC
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
- Lamentations 5:6c. 588 BC
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
- Lamentations 5:7c. 588 BC
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
- Lamentations 5:8c. 588 BC
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
- Lamentations 5:9c. 588 BC
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
- Lamentations 5:10c. 588 BC
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
- Lamentations 5:11c. 588 BC
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
- Lamentations 5:12c. 588 BC
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
- Lamentations 5:13c. 588 BC
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
- Lamentations 5:14c. 588 BC
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
- Lamentations 5:15c. 588 BC
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
- Lamentations 5:16c. 588 BC
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
- Lamentations 5:17c. 588 BC
¶ For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
- Lamentations 5:18c. 588 BC
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.