Lamentations 5
Study sheet, King James Version, with the original-language words this chapter turns on.
The text
1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to 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 necks are under persecution: we labour, 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 iniquities.
8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9We gat 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 terrible famine.
11They ravished 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 honoured.
13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, 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 desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
Words in this chapter
Definitions are Strong's own wording from his Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Counts are how often each word appears in this chapter, from the tagged text.
- עַלʻalH59215× in this chapter
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
- הָיָהhâyâhH19613× in this chapter
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
- יָדyâdH30273× in this chapter
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
- יְהֹוָהYᵉhôvâhH30683× in this chapter
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
- אַיִןʼayinH3693× in this chapter
a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle
- פָּנִיםpânîymH64403× in this chapter
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
- אָבʼâbH12× in this chapter
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
- דּוֹרdôwrH17552× in this chapter
properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling
- הָפַךְhâphakH20152× in this chapter
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
- זָקֵןzâqênH22052× in this chapter
old
- חָטָאchâṭâʼH23982× in this chapter
properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
- יוֹםyôwmH31172× in this chapter
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
- כִּיkîyH35882× in this chapter
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
- לֹאlôʼH38082× in this chapter
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
- לֵבlêbH38202× in this chapter
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
- לֶחֶםlechemH38992× in this chapter
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
- מָאַסmâʼaçH39882× in this chapter
to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear
- מָהmâhH41002× in this chapter
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
- עֵץʻêtsH60862× in this chapter
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
- צִיּוֹןTsîyôwnH67262× in this chapter
Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem
- שָׁבַתshâbathH76732× in this chapter
to repose, i.e. desist from exertion; used in many implied relations (causative, figurative or specific)
- שׁוּבshûwbH77252× in this chapter
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
- בּוֹאbôwʼH9352× in this chapter
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
- בָּחוּרbâchûwrH9702× in this chapter
properly, selected, i.e. a youth (often collective)
- בַּיִתbayithH10041× in this chapter
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
- בְּתוּלָהbᵉthûwlâhH13301× in this chapter
a virgin (from her privacy); sometimes (by continuation) a bride; also (figuratively) a city or state
- דָּוֶהdâvehH17391× in this chapter
sick (especially in menstruation)
- אוֹיʼôwyH1881× in this chapter
lamentation; also interjectionally Oh!
- הָדַרhâdarH19211× in this chapter
to swell up (literally or figuratively, active or passive); by implication, to favor or honour, be high or proud
- הָלַךְhâlakH19801× in this chapter
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
- הַרharH20221× in this chapter
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
- זֶהzehH20881× in this chapter
the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that
- זוּרzûwrH21141× in this chapter
to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be aforeigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
- זָכַרzâkarH21421× in this chapter
properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember; by implication, to mention; to be male
- זַלְעָפָהzalʻâphâhH21521× in this chapter
a glow (of wind or anger); also a famine (as consuming)
- חָדַשׁchâdashH23181× in this chapter
to be new; causatively, to rebuild
- חֶרֶבcherebH27191× in this chapter
drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
- חֶרְפָּהcherpâhH27811× in this chapter
contumely, disgrace, the pudenda
- חָשַׁךְchâshakH28211× in this chapter
to be dark (as withholding light); transitively, to darken
- טְחוֹןṭᵉchôwnH29111× in this chapter
a hand mill; hence, a millstone