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Lamentations 5

Hebrew, word by word. The text arrives sealed from the shelf and is drawn above, every word pressable for its record. Under each verse here: the reading printed for each of its words, oldest witness first, credited by number to its source at the foot.

Lamentations 5:1

to mention1 · The Lord2 · why?3 · to exist1 · abide (all night)2 · (cause to) behold2 · look + !4 · and + look4 · with1 · reproach + our4

Lamentations 5:2

you will take as a possession + us4 · X become2 · to + strangers4 · houses + our4 · to + foreigners4

Lamentations 5:3

fatherless (child)2 · become3 · nothing1 · and + not4 · father1 · mothers + our4 · [are] like + widows4

Lamentations 5:4

from + right [hand] + his4 · in <the> + silver4 · X assuredly2 · wood<s> + our4 · for + a price4 · abide2

Lamentations 5:5

Most High2 · neck + our4 · chase2 · faint2 · no1 · and + not4 · cease2 · abide (all night)2

Lamentations 5:6

Egypt1 · add2 · hand1 · Assyria1 · for + seven4 · food1

Lamentations 5:7

fathers + our4 · bear the blame2 · not + they4 · and + not + they4 · we2 · and + we4 · iniquities + their4 · bear2

Lamentations 5:8

X be2 · (have, make to have) dominion2 · build2 · rapine5 · nothing1 · from + hand + their4

Lamentations 5:9

with + life + our4 · a prophet4 · [will be] bread + our4 · from + before4 · knife1 · the + wilderness4

Lamentations 5:10

skin + our4 · like + an oven4 · be black2 · from + before4 · horrible2 · hunger2

Lamentations 5:11

(adulter)ess2 · in + Zion4 · poor2 · maid2 · in + [the] cities of4 · Judah1

Lamentations 5:12

behold (by mistake for shuwr)2 · [were] in + hand + their4 · hang (up)2 · face2 · aged2 · no1 · countenance2

Lamentations 5:13

(choice) young (man)2 · millstone6 · beguile2 · and + lads4 · on the + tree[s]4 · bereave (from the margin)2

Lamentations 5:14

aged2 · from + gate4 · (cause to, let, make to) cease2 · (choice) young (man)2 · [am] mocking song + their4

Lamentations 5:15

seat2 · joy1 · for + son + his4 · X become2 · <into> + mourning4 · dancing + our4

Lamentations 5:16

fall (down)2 · crown2 · head + our4 · lamentation1 · now1 · abide (all night)2 · since1 · bear the blame2

Lamentations 5:17

Most High2 · this1 · to exist1 · menstruous cloth1 · for + son + his4 · Most High2 · god1 · assuage2 · eyes + our4

Lamentations 5:18

Most High2 · Hor3 · Zion1 · that + [is] desolate4 · foxes3 · (all) along2 · [is] in <the> + it4

Lamentations 5:19

you7 · The Lord2 · for + ever4 · (make to) abide(-ing)2 · throne + your4 · to + a generation4 · and + [the] generation4

Lamentations 5:20

why?8 · to + perpetuity4 · do you forget + us4 · you will neglect + him4 · for + length of4 · sea (X -faring man, (-shore))2

Lamentations 5:21

brought back3 · The Lord2 · [is] to + you4 · and + we may return4 · and + we will return4 · a month1 · right [hand] + his4 · like + long ago4

Lamentations 5:22

since1 · mother1 · reject1 · you have rejected + us4 · (be) anger(-ry)2 · arise (up)2 · until1 · vehemence1

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